O trabalho escravo e seus resquícios na contemporaneidade

Abstract

Slavery structured Brazilian history, has left its mark, it was quite fought but, unfortunately, there still remains, at present, this cruel and inhumane practice. From this perspective, there was a literature review that aimed to analyze the past and the present of slavery in Brazil, all the historical evolution of the theme, the advancement of fundamental rights, the innovations brought by our legal system, and present possible solutions in order to give greater effectiveness of deterrence that slavery today. Soon, it was realized that not only poverty is a determining factor for the practice of slave labor, but also the search for ever more profits imposed by the capitalist system. There are more countries in the world authorizers slave labor. However, especially in underdeveloped and developing countries (as is the case of Brazil) has created a vicious cycle in which the lack of structure of governments, both instrumental and cool, determines impunity and the continuation of the practice of slave labor. Among the various practices of slave labor existing in the world, Brazil comprises forms of debt bondage and child slave labor, subdividing the latter in child slave labor in the field, which is the same debt bondage, forced labor and domestic. Finally, it was found that the constitutional aspect should be to change to broaden the competence of the labor courts to try crimes related to the practice of slave labor. Despite being the current jurisdiction of the Federal Court, the transposition of this competence to the Special Labor Courts facilitate access to justice for injured workers, as well as decrease the impunity accustomed to the practice of slave labor in our territory.