ELEMENTOS PARA DISCUSSÃO DA ESCRAVIDÃO CONTEMPORÂNEA COMO PRÁTICA DE GESTÃO

O trabalho escravo contemporâneo está inserido nas relações de mercado entre organizações globais e seus fornecedores, e envolve práticas de gestão de pessoas que ferem os direitos humanos, como o cerceamento da liberdade, as condições degradantes de trabalho e a jornada exaustiva. O artigo analisa o trabalho escravo no Brasil e provê sustentação empírica para uma teoria da escravidão contemporânea como prática de gestão. Dois aspectos principais justificam esta contribuição. Em primeiro lugar, o debate chama a atenção à dinâmica da responsabilidade social e ao impacto das atividades empresariais nos países emergentes. Em segundo, põe-se em evidência a discussão do contexto da pobreza e suas inter-relações com o sistema de produção-consumo. O artigo sugere que o campo da Administração não detém a compreensão dos fundamentos da pobreza e de como práticas de gestão estariam implicadas na sua reprodução e no seu alívio. A agenda de pesquisa enfatiza a insustentabilidade de aspectos da globalização da produção e do consumo, e prioriza o problema.

As desventuras de um conceito: capitalismo histórico e a historiografia sobre a escravidão brasileira

O artigo explora os meios pelos quais a historiografia sobre a escravidão brasileira tem lidado com o tema do capitalismo nos últimos tempos. Se, entre as décadas de 1930 e 1970, o conceito esteve no centro das preocupações de historiadores e cientistas sociais, a partir de fins da década de 1980, ele desapareceu do horizonte analítico das escolas historiográficas que se firmaram no campo. O artigo avalia as perdas produzidas por tal escolha, apontando a necessidade de operarmos com definições renovadas de capitalismo histórico para avançarmos na compreensão do nosso passado escravista.

A pretensa justificação humanitária da escravidão: o "escravo da força" e o "escravo da fome"

pp. 229-238

Escravidão e direitos fundamentais no século XIX

CEDIS; FDUNL; FCT

Escravidão "suave" no Brasil: Gilberto Freyre tinha razão?

This article examines the question of the supposedly benign character of Brazilian slavery in contrast with North America slavery. In economic analyses of slavery, coercion toward slaves is viewed as a means to achieve maximum output, especially in large-scale agriculture. In small slave holdings, however, coercion was generally inefficient for that purpose, and positive incentives tended to be preferred. It is argued that, as recent evidence on Brazil has shown that small slave holdings prevailed in various regions and periods, this may lend empirical support to the notion of a relatively benign slavery, using more incentives than coercion.

Direito do trabalho: escravidão infantil

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Mariana , Pai contra mãe e O caso da vara : escravidão e chão histórico em Machado de Assis

Machado de Assis understood his time and brought his perception of Brazilian society in the 19th century, with its multiple aspects economy, politics, culture, amongst others - to the texts he wrote. Through the tensions lived in his novels and short stories, Machado displays Brazilian social reality and the changes it had been undergoing. Mariana and Pai contra mãe show the crisis of the slavery system, the relation of dependency, the treatment given to the captives and the lack of coherence of a country that intended to adopt Liberalism as an ideology, but which kept on living under the shadow of slavery and its consequences. A country where the priorities were given to the landlords, owners of slaves, in protection of their interests. O caso da vara tells about how the crias da casa little black girls who lived in the household and learned how to make spool embroidery were treated. What were the punishments for desobedience and how they were levelled out, how should be the behaviour of a child who lived as a social outcast. Thus, this paper aims at playing a game of mirrors between History and fiction. Not only to play it, but to analyze how Machado deals with the reflections of 19th century Brazil on his short stories

Escravidão na Vila do Príncipe, província do Rio Grande do Norte (1850/1888)

This dissertation presents a study on the slave population of Vila do Príncipe, from 1850 to 1888, based on the judicial and notarial collection of hand written documents as well as on the Reports of Presidents of the Province of Rio Grande do Norte. The issue that drives the research relates to the reproduction of slavery in a region of cattle breeding colonization. Therefore, the research aims to understand how in a peripheral socio-economic place (in Vila do Príncipe, cattle breeding Seridó) after the prohibition of the African slave trade, the slave relationships subsisted and structured themselves. In the sense, the research analyzed the dynamics of socio-economic slave units and their relationship with space, ownership structure and the slave family.

Liberdades possíveis em espaços periféricos: escravidão e alforria no termo da vila de Arez (séculos xviii e xix)

This paper discusses aspects of the slavery and emancipations in the village of Arez between the last quarter of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth century. It seeks to identify the profile of the slaves and the emancipation possibilities in a peripheral region with few commercial activities, given that the most of the approaches about manumission consider towns and cities where the economic dynamics ware more pronounced, as places of higher possibilities of slaves working in diverse activities that allowed them to accumulate a reserve fund and thus buy their freedom. Therefore it was necessary to raise evidences of slavery in the case study, which was based on surveys of the eighteenth century, and the first decades of the nineteenth century and some population maps and civil records related to the early nineteenth century. The information about the manumission acts were analyzed based on writs of freedom registered in the village of Arez between 1774 and 1827 due to the absence of other documents about it. The registry books include all the documents of the Arez community; so, it was possible to observe what happened in rural localities, in the town, in the headquarters of the district and in the village of Goianinha. Based on information from the documents, it was possible to address some aspects of slavery like the predominant types of groups, the possible activities in which slaves were inserted and the profile of the freed slaves, the emancipation modes and, therefore, discuss the possible relations ship between the colonial space and manumissions and between masters and slaves