Desenvolvimento sócioeconômico e novas alternativas rurais no Espírito Santo: o caso de Venda Nova do Imigrante

Abstract

The political leadings of 1960s decade marked a new phase in Capixaba's economic development, with reference to the growing industrialization and the new capitalist working relations in the countryside that promoted a high rural exodus, mainly caused by the disruption of families’ small property labor, which predominated in Venda Nova do Imigrante city and that will serve as a guiding reference to our object of study in this work. Regarding this structural change, the family production worker of Venda Nova do Imigrante has found in the rescue of its tradition a way for new work alternatives based on rural activities, which allowed the permanence of families in the rural milieu. In this context, our research sought to develop a study about the social-economical and the new rural alternatives in Venda Nova do Imigrante, especially after the impacts of coffe's eradication during the 1960's, in search of a better understanding of the dynamics that changed that city to new standard of economy and development, and which turned into an agritouristic exponent in the state of Espírito Santo, with a repercussion that goes further any regional boundaries. Our study was based on two mythological strands, one based on general and specific literature about the theme, and another based on field research, sustained by oral history's interview technique, with those directly involved with those new rural alternatives that had been developed after the eradication of the coffee fields in the 1960s. These are tools that facilitated the elaboration of the present work in a qualitative approach which meets the goals of our research project.