The field in the city and agrarian reform: an analysis of labor and the territory

Abstract

The present article aims to contribute to the debate on the appropriations and uses of space for urban and rural families that take part of the Agrarian Reform Program of the federal government. To reach this purpose, the authors started their study from a case study conducted in Ipanema Settlement, located in the city of Iperó, state of Sao Paulo. To achieve this goal, they elected labor as a fundamental category in Marxist analysis to explain the features of human societies. Moreover, to peasant population labor is closely connected with life in broad sense. From the analysis of several concepts of labor carried out by families who settled - in the field and in the city - we move forward in the understanding how the lot and the settlement dimensions are appropriated and built by the settlers, being a peasant territory under construction inside the settlement.