Abstract
In the Brazilian Amazon, the expansion of large-scale mining activities has mobilized significant population contingents for some cities and has been announced as a driver of so-called local development, to the extent that it would overcome certain social dynamics present in previously economically predominant activities. In this sense, based on what Ruy Mauro Marini proposed as a Marxist theory of dependency, it is analyzed the historical processes of development of the expansion fronts in the so-called Eastern Amazon as an expression of a broader historical process of reproduction of dependency and super-exploitation of labour. The research was carried out based on bibliographic research data, research in archives of social movements and a stage of research and field work, carried out in 2012, considering a broader research developed by the author and started in 2005 in the same region.
Keywords:
Mining; Expansion Fronts; Super-exploitation; Ruy Mauro Marini; Amazon