Divisão internacional do trabalho e direito à cidade (de porte médio) no Norte Fluminense: legado e maldição de Prometeu

Abstract

The international division of labor has set up a framework of agroindustrial production in Northern Rio de Janeiro State since the time of the Captaincy of São Tomé in the mid-seventeenth century. The industrial revolutions and the abolition of slavery had provided a series of restructurings in the sugarcane production chain with significant repercussions on the regional economy. Keynesian Fordist regulation emerging from the postwar period, however, has elected other sectors of the economy as dynamic. On the other hand, in the 1970s, the exhaustion of this regulatory model coincides with the discovery of a large oil deposit on the north coast of Rio de Janeiro. The oil economy produced an economic scenario that greatly altered the land issue, converting rural land income into an urban one. At the beginning of the 21st century, the construction of the Açu Port reconfigured the space production process as it has been attracting the oil economy to: São João da Barra; Campos dos Goytacazes; Quissamã and São Francisco de Itabapoana. In this research, through a gramscian perspective, we work with the testimony of a group of people who struggle in the political and civil societies in the process of construction of the enlarged State in these municipalities. Through the eyes of these intellectuals, in addition to bibliographical and docupmental research, we investigated how losses and gains were made in this process, whether there were advances towards the universalization of the right to the city or if we confirm the Brazilian tradition of promoting conservative modernizations