Cultivar a terra

During the second semester of 2023 and the first semester of 2024, as part of the Supervised Internship in Work Psychology at PUC Minas São Gabriel, we conducted an intervention-research project in the Dois de Julho Settlement, part of the Landless Workers' Movement (MST), in Belo Horizonte's Metropolitan Region. Our initial objective was to understand the ways of life and work of these workers, but we expanded our analysis to include the MST's struggle for Agrarian Reform, the meanings attributed to work, sociability, subjectivation, and socio-environmental care practices. Grounded in a Marxian reading of labor and Work Psychology, we employed technical visits, semi-structured interviews, and participant observation. The preliminary results highlight the emotional bond with the land, contrasting with alienated labor in capitalism, and point towards overcoming the sociability of capital, aiming to build a fairer, more fraternal, and supportive society, free from the laws of the market and capital.