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The purpose of this article is to analyse how union activism and the work experience of metalworkers were part of the learning processes and became expectations of formal education for their children. The interviews were carried out with metallurgical women and men from the ABC Paulista region, who participated in the cycle of strikes in the late 1970s, and with their sons and daughters. From their memories, we can show how the trajectories of activism and work provide evidence to understand the influences on the educational investments of sons and daughters., El propósito de este artículo es analizar cómo el activismo sindical y la experiencia laboral de los metalúrgicos fueron componentes de los procesos de aprendizaje y se convirtieron en expectativas de la educación formal para sus hijos. Las entrevistas se realizaron con mujeres y hombres metalúrgicos de la región ABC Paulista, que participaron en el ciclo de huelgas a fines de la década de 1970, y con hijos e hijas. A partir de sus memorias, podemos mostrar cómo las trayectorias del activismo y el trabajo muestran evidencias para comprender las influencias en las inversiones educativas de hijos e hijas., A proposta deste artigo é analisar como a militância sindical e a experiência de trabalho de metalúrgicos(as) foram constituintes de processos de aprendizagem e se converteram em expectativas de educação formal para os(as) filhos(as). As entrevistas foram feitas com mulheres e homens metalúrgicos, seus filhos e filhas, da região do ABC Paulista, que participaram do ciclo de greves de fins da década de 1970. A partir de suas memórias, podemos mostrar como as trajetórias de militância e trabalho fornecem indícios para compreender as influências nos investimentos educacionais dos filhos e filhas.

H. Mendras taught us that the category "peasant farmer" was meant to disappear when peasant societies would disappear. This tendency was well illustrated in the European case. However, new evolutions in the social movements up-dating peasant identities in Europe, Latin America and Africa have brought this question to the present debate. This paper intends to present a comparative view of the new family agriculture in the Northeast of Brazil and France, considering the resistance, roots and peasant values. The Brazilian Northeast family farming is characterised by the permanence of an irregular and partial relation to diversified markets, as well as by the modernisation or the resurgence of peasant redistribution relations and reciprocity practices. In France, the claim of peasant trade unions is more linked to the valorisation of product quality and of local identity, although the peasant society does not exist any more. Thus, the integration to segmented markets more and more qualified or still subsidised, questions the future extension and generalisation of the European peasant model. On the contrary, in the Brazilian Northeast, peasant communities which are capable of developing regional and local collective projects still maintain themselves. Parallel to the economic integration of competitive family farming into the markets, there is an alternative for territorial and social integration through pluriactivity and multifunctionality of the agriculture. The challenge is to mobilise and negotiate public policies devoted to modern peasant agriculture, considering the collective attributes and human values, instead of social assistance to poor rural families.