Acção colectiva: condições, oportunidades e limites um estudo de caso sobre um assentamento do MST

Abstract

Within a social and sociological background which may provide the necessary conditions for emergency (or not) of collective action, the author tackles this issue by confronting several positions dealing with it, and enriching it with empirical data from a case history found on a settlement administered by the Movimento dos Trabalhadores sem Terra (MST) in the Sate of Pernambuco. These workers are grouped by the MST as an organization which questions the global logic found in the current stage of capitalist development. By collecting contributions from several neo(Marxist) and neo(Weberian) authors who deal with social movements, we defend as a fundamental issue the surviving and security imperative (Scott) and combine, following Bader’s trail, the various levels of analysis for collective action.