Planos nacionais para erradicação do trabalho escravo no Brasil: uma análise do monitoramento (2003-2015)

Abstract

Nowadays accurate empirical estimates of contemporary slave labor throughout the world have been established, as well as an extensive ethnographic documentation of the experiences of workers subjected to this practice. While this scenario offers valuable insights into the phenomenon in question, it is a hostage to a vast array of approaches to quantitative statistics of liberated workers or simple fact-finding. In Brazil, as part of the implementation of the National Plans for the Eradication of Slave Labor (2003 and 2008), government agencies and entities of organized civil society were integrated and articulated, developing an information network on contemporary slave labor. The present thesis is that the data of this network, mostly quantitative, have been constituted, even unofficially, in a kind of monitoring of contemporary slave labor in the country. It aims to examine the effectiveness of the monitoring implemented in order to verify the proximity of the information contained in its data with the social reality that permeates this illegal practice. For that, the data are analyzed in the face of contextual variables of social, economic, political and structural character. It is concluded that there is a large gap among the repertoire of contextual variables, which can dialogue with the object monitored in each specific area investigated, and the capacity of government agencies to use it in the formulation of qualitative data, contextualizing the social reality In which workers are oppressed through this illicit practice of labor exploitation, which points to the ineffectiveness of the monitoring investigated regarding the representativeness of the reality of contemporary slave labor in Brazil.