Condições de trabalho, produtividade e riscos à saúde do trabalhador na atividade do corte manual de cana: um estudo de caso na Usina Santa Adélia

Abstract

The present research aimed understanding three variables existents in the manual sugar cane cut activity: workforce conditions, productivity and risks to the worker s health. To reach this objective it was necessary to observe, by the descriptive research, a serie of factors like the workforce conditions necessary to the rurals historical evolutions; the actual workforce conditions existent in this activity; the productivity reached in the activity; the workers health risk in the sugar cane cut activity; and under the research on field method, a case study that could show the the three variables working in a plant, which conclusion presents several visions taken by this variables comprehension.