The objective of this research was to analyze the work relationships that characterize rural
workers in the palm oil agroindustry in Igarapé-Açu, notably analyzing Agroindustrial
Palmasa. The palm oil agroindustry, at a macropolitical level, was territorialized in the
northeast of Pará through state developmental actions in civil-military governments in the
1960s, planned by the Superintendence for Economic Valorization of the Amazon (SPVEA)
and the Superintendency for the Development of the Amazon (SUDAM), and, it has a new
impulse with the neo-developmentalism of the 2000s, associated with sustainable
development, through the National Biodiesel Production Program (PNPB) and the Sustainable
Palm Oil Program (PSOP). These led to integration projects, to obtain the Social Fuel Seal
(SCS), between palm oil producers and family farmers in municipalities in the northeast of
Pará. Through qualitative methodology, combining interview, bibliographic and quantitative
data, we verified that the most recent public policies did not cover the economic activities of
Agroindustrial Palmasa, in Igarapé-Açu. In the region, contracts predominate, but only for
purchase and sale, an associative relationship, between medium/large rural palm oil producers
and the company itself. In this way, direct relations between classes gravitate between
medium/large farmers and farm workers responsible for working on the farms.
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