The sugar economy and the process of exploration since Colonial Brazil

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the exploration process established by the dominion and power of a small group in the sugar economy since the colonial period, the economy was integrated world capitalism by the accumulation process in a commercial production structure for the European market. The production of cane sugar, subject to monopoly and taxation of real Portuguese metropolis, was centered on large monoculture property, the landowners and the slave system. Being marked after 1930 with the agribusiness system of cane sugar, verifying greater state intervention in Brazilian territorial configuration in favor of the interests of the dominant group sugar, through public policy development, setting the twentieth century as basement the monopolization of finance capital and strengthening of agribusiness to the process of reproduction of capital. Thus, it is evident the domain of an oligarchy that dominates the monopoly the reproduction process of capital throughout the process history- economic Brazilian, with cane sugar as its main economic product that generates new territoriality in the field from the land concentration and unemployment/precarization of workers, strengthening the logic of uneven and combined capital.