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Forced Labour in Brazil : A Study of the Global and Local Forces that Influence Rural Coercive Work in Brazil.

The following thesis is an investigation of the actors, the forces and the conditions contributing to the phenomenon of forced labor in the Brazilian countryside. The paper begins by providing a relevant historical background to the problem of coercive labor, starting with the colonial legacy of slavery, dating back to the 16th century and leading up to the present. The aim is to explore the role of local actors, in particular landowners, gatos and the ‘enslaved’ (or workers coerced into forced labor) in constituting and re-constituting this phenomenon. At the same time the influence of local actors is contextualized in light of broader transnational processes, such as the spread of capitalism and neo-liberal globalization.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:su-72169
Date January 2012
CreatorsRaimundo de Lima, Wenderson
PublisherStockholms universitet, Institutionen för spanska, portugisiska och latinamerikastudier
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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