The sugarcane industry has expanded its dimensions and its dominance in Brazil. Politically, this increase backs on a history that connects the production of cane sugar to economic development and national progress (Godoy, 2004). This paper questions this official version from the story and experiences of rural the workers. The research was developed during the Master in Psychology in UFMG. As methodological tool was used the Life History as proposed by clinical sociology in dialogue with the theoretical and methodological approaches of the social-psychology of work and ergology. The narrative of a worker of sugarcane industry could reveal the impacts of sugarcane industry daily life of individuals, community and all the experiences omitted in the official history.
sugarcane industry; rural work; history of life; knowledge; experience