Os valores de uma luta: A economia moral do movimento pela terra dos pequenos lavradores do Sert？o Carioca nos difíceis anos de 1945-1964

this article attempts to discuss on concept of moral economy, presenting the case of "pequenos lavradores" (quatters) in rio de janeiro' landscape between 1945-1964. in the first place, the focus falls on the discussion of anthropologists as klaas and ellen woortman about that concept. in the second, i make a verification one of how moral economy one has been expressed by "pequenos lavradores" in you fight for the land. my hypothesis is that moral economy one not is only a set of values, but it play too an important rule in the establishment of a political speech one and of your social identity. the sources explored are newspapers, peasant meeting documents and letters envoy to the president getúlio vargas.