Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: PAULO HENRIQUE LORA GOMES DA SILVA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : PAULO HENRIQUE LORA GOMES DA SILVA
DATE: 30/07/2025
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: REMOTO - Via Google Meet
TITLE:

THE LIMITS OF INDIGNITY: A STUDY ON THE PERMANENCE OF CONTEMPORARY SLAVERY

KEY WORDS:

 

 

Contemporary slavery; Degrading work; Rondônia; Rural unions; Social justice; Amazon.

PAGES: 122
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais e Aplicadas
AREA: Direito
SUMMARY:

This dissertation resulted from an interdisciplinary investigation that analyzed the persistence of contemporary slave labor in the state of Rondonia, focusing on the contradictions between the current legal system and the socioeconomic practices established in the Amazon region. The qualitative, critical, and dialectical research combined a literature review, document analysis, and case study to understand the structural factors that sustain the subjection of workers to degrading conditions, despite constitutional and legal guarantees. The theoretical framework was developed based on authors such as Ricardo Antunes, Bernardo Mancano Fernandes, Kevin Bales, and Saskia Sassen, which allowed us to articulate the historical, political, and economic dimensions that shape the precariousness of labor and the reconfiguration of slavery in global capitalism. The dissertation argues that modern slavery, although legally prohibited, remains alive in new forms: without legal ownership, with low labor acquisition costs, and high profitability. The symbolic misrepresentation of the term "slavery," replaced by technical-legal expressions such as "conditions analogous to slavery," is criticized as a strategy to erase the brutality of the phenomenon. This case study analyzed court case No. 1003372-56.2021.4.01.4100, which refers to a case of contemporary slavery that occurred in Vila Marmelo (Extrema, Rondonia), revealing practices of recruitment, human trafficking, debt bondage, and institutional collusion. The analysis highlighted how informality, union weakness, and the absence of effective public policies foster the reproduction of these violations. The research resulted in the creation of a guide on good union practices with guidelines for welcoming, reporting, and preventing slave labor in rural areas. The material seeks to strengthen the political and pedagogical role of unions as agents of social transformation. The dissertation defends the use of the term "slavery" in the context of the context. as a form of political and symbolic confrontation of the naturalization of structural violence that affects rural workers in the Amazon.

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