Trabalho escravo contemporâneo ou superexploração do trabalho?: representações dos agentes institucionais no caso de Bagé (RS)

Abstract

In Brazil , the emergence of debt bondage or peonage originated in capitalist expansion in the Amazon region during the period of military government . In the 1990s , when the Brazilian government admitted the existence of the phenomenon in the country , numerous governmental actions have sought to suppress and combat this illegal form of work, chief among which is the creation of PERFOR (1992 ) and the National Plan for the Eradication of Slave Labor (2003 ) . The objective of this dissertation is to describe the representations of institutional actors involved in the case of Bage ( RS ) on the phenomenon of modern-day slavery . The pyruvic context of this research is related to a case of overexploitation of labor occurred in the city of Bage ( RS ) in 2008 . The results of this research show that institutional agents perceive the practice of contemporary slave labor differently and that , although they belong to different professional categories , the representations that have the phenomenon are not as conflicting.