WORKER'S HEALTH WORSENING IN FARMING COMMODITIES PRODUCTION IN BRAZIL

Abstract

The social-historical work dimension is fundamental to the health-disease process comprehension, at any time and place. In Brazil, since this century's first decade, the commodities production expansion and the corresponding strengthening in agro-business promoted a change in social imaginary. It is supposed that, due to technical baseline elevation in productive processing, work degradation associated to this sector would be surpassed. The following paper intends to oppose this vision when seeking to measure the main farming commodities production implications (soy beans, sugar and alcohol, cellulose and meat) on worker's health. For that, it has proceeded analysis and surveying of job's quantitative data (hiring and dismissal) and work's worsening (accidents and absences) on main existent open database (RATS, CAGED, InfoLogo, AEAT and SINAN), comprehended between 2006-2017. Despite many quantification limitations in worker's health, the obtained results allow us to alert for the severity of the problem and the necessity of making new researches over this topic.