Escravidão moderna: o trabalho escravo no setor da construção civil

Abstract

The present research proposes to analyze the different types of slavery that have occurred throughout the history of humanity in order to answer what is the factor that leads man to enslave his fellow man. For this, began the description of man's exploitation by man still in ancient Greece and Rome. Historical slavery was a period that deserved special mention in the research for being an emblematic moment in the history of man. Its occurrence has generated consequences that are still felt by blacks and mestizos in different parts of the planet. This period also served as a parameter for comparison with slavery that still persists today. This comparison aimed to understand the similarities and differences in these two moments of history in order to seek the discovery of mechanisms that lead to the end of its occurrence. As a theoretical framework, the book Disposable people: the new slavery in the global economy, by the American author Kevin Bales, considered, currently, one of the greatest experts in modern slavery in the world. He outlines the current forms of slavery and ponders that it occurs in all countries today, to a greater or lesser degree, whether this developed or developing country. Finally, he categorizes current slaves into five profiles, analyzing their existence within society, punctuating five countries (Brazil, Pakistan, Thailand, India and Mauritania). Going deeper into the subject, he verified the types of slavery found in Brazil. It was concluded that the civil construction sector is today one of the sectors with the highest incidence of slave labor in the country, with numbers of workers in a situation analogous to slave labor, which often surpasses those found in agriculture. This makes slavery much closer, since agriculture may be an area that prevails in locations far from the major urban centers, but civil construction is present everywhere. With such a level of comprehensiveness, it has been realized that only the empowerment of this worker so that he does not accept and does not have to submit to such a situation will ensure that slavery is truly extinct throughout the world.