The article is about work, social ovements and education. Its objective is to present elements in order to attempt to identify the principles and ends of freedom and emancipation which sustain experiences of work education in a system of alternation, carried out by popular social movements in the countryside. It deals with trade union organizations of rural workers and the movements organized by the Via Campesina. Despite the diversity of subjects, social projects and types of organization, these movements have in common an historical struggle for land on which to work and for democracy, which allow us to synthesize them in the one unit of Rural Workers' Movement. The study is important in that it highlights the need to pay attention to what is new in the experiences of work-education developed by the Rural Workers' Movement, which is produced in the absence of the process of reproduction and accumulation of capital and of State control.
work-education; social movements; pedagogy of alternation; liberty and emancipation