Work, territorialization and conflicts over the use of natural resources in the Rio Madeira/Amazonas (1861-1932)

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss the time the Amazonian populations under go one of most dramatic experience of its history. It is the incorporation of the region to the logic of the market economy in the mid-nineteenth century, from the exploitation of the indigenous workforce and riverside communities, mobilized for the extraction of forest production, in the particular the elastic gum. This (new) territorialization process is marked by immobilization strategies of the labor force established primarily for control of natural resources found in the region.

Keywords

• work
• territorialization
• conflict