EUCALYPTUS PLANTATIONS AND PULP PRODUCTION

Promises of Jobs and Destruction of Work
The case of Aracruz Celulose in Brazil

Edited by The Network Alert against the Green Desert and the WRM
By: Alacir De'Nadai, Winfridus Overbeek, Luiz Alberto Soares. May 2005

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Part I: Employment and Aracruz Celulose
1. Aracruz Celulose
1.1 Background and main aspects
1.2 Main criticism and resistance
2. Marketing job promises
3. The generation of jobs
3.1 Data from the sector of plantations and cellulose in Brazil
3.2 Aracruz Celulose
3.3 Generation of jobs vs. other parameters
4. Mechanization
4.1 Plantations
4.2 Industry
5. Outsourcing and degradation of work conditions
5.1 The outsourcing process
5.2 Outsourcing at Aracruz Celulose
6. Unions: organization and dismantling
6.1 Sinticel
6.2 Sintral
7. Former workers: occupational accidents and illnesses on plantations
7.1 Discharged mutilated workers
7.2 The current situation of workers on plantations

Part II: Employment and work in the neighboring communities ofAracruz: destruction of work and search for alternatives
1. The situation of employment and work in neighboring communities
2.Women and eucalyptus
3.Work generation alternatives in the countryside
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Case study:Vila Valério
Final considerations