The article analyzes the memory contribution in the process of re-rooting and reconstruction of workers' social identity in agrarian reform settlements. We studied the remembrances of the life path of a settled rural worker linked to the MST - Movement of Landless Rural Workers, chosen on purposely on account of age band, experience as a rural worker and participation in social movements struggling for land. Information was obtained through interviews, which combined verbal statements of life history with exploratory questions, besides documental analysis. The categories family, work and political participation allowed understanding the relationship between memory pictures, the process of construction of the different characters composing the identity, as well as the dialogue established amongst them and the organizational principles of the MST. The identity Landless is a product of those relationships as much as is re-signified by them in the remembering process.
memory; social identity; rooting; social movements; agrarian reform