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This paper aims at analyzing the situation of rural workers of the Itamatamirim Farm in Vitoria de Santo Antao, Pernambuco. These workers, who are former sugar cane have been submitted to a workshop that combines farming with rural tourism. Therefore, traces the changes produced by this experience in the fields of work and life of these hybrids of farmers and workers in rural tourism. The methodological procedures were used combined techniques of data collection, such as semi-structured interview and oral history. The results of this investigation showed that the changes processed in the fields of work and life of the former sugar cane Itamatamirim Farm had in the forms of political participation, the use of free time, leisure, access to new technologies of communication and information and aspirations for the future.