Labor in the interior : a matter of honor

Abstract

In this paper, I discuss the productive activity as the foundation of the feeling of pride to the country men. The analyses are set up in transcriptions of passages about the history of two rural migrants’ life, when they lived in the rural area. On that time, one worked as a landless laborer partner and the other as a cowboy. Through the interviewees’ speech I attempted to demonstrate how labor determines the way of acting and thinking of the country men, at the same time that it stigmatizes him as an honored man. keywords: Collective representation. Labor. Honor. Northeastern interior.