"Oligarcas" ou "revolucionários" : uma visão weberiana sobre os desafios dos dirigentes sindicais do campo no sudeste paraense.

Abstract

This dissertation uses a Weberian framework in order to analyze the organizational and political strategies adopted by rural union leaders in the southeast of the State of Pará during the period of 1996 to 2008. The study is based on two hypotheses. The first, follows Robert Michels’ thesis on the centralization process of political organizations in modern mass democracies. The second, focuses the framework of two paradigms on the role of the agricultural complex and its institutionalization strategies in the development process of advanced capitalist economies. Based on the analyzed evidences, we may conclude that the union leaders keep a relatively close relationship with their basis, weakening the oligarchic thesis on the apartheid between the leadership and its followers. On the other hand, as the research revealed a higher “level of knowledge” of the rural union leaders on the “partisanpolitical” issue instead of the “agricultural” one, this indicates that one of the paradigms is useful for the interpretation of their strategical decisions. Following theses evidences, according to the weberian theory, the analyses focus on a critical interpretation on the implications of such “choices”.