Tag: slavery

How Cardoso Used Marx to Understand Brazilian Slavery

{mosimage}In Capitalismo e Escravidão no Brasil Meridional (Capitalism and Slavery in Southern Brazil), Cardoso ...

Brazilian Firms to Stop Buying Goods Involving Slave Labor

Brazil’s Pact for the Eradication of Slave Labor, announced yesterday, has already gathered 60 ...

Brazil Reaches Out to Companies to End Slave Labor

To eliminate workers exploitation is the objective of the National Pact for the Eradication ...

Slave Employer Fined US$ 1.2 Million in Brazil

Brazil’s 2nd Labor Court of the city of Marabá (Pará state), in the Amazonian ...

6 Million Brazilians Work as Maid

The precarious working conditions of domestic workers in Brazil are being discussed today in ...

With 2 Million Kids Working Brazil Promises End to Child Labor

Since 1996 the Brazilian government has been able to rescue 930 thousand working children ...

The Hipocrisy of Brazil’s Anti-Racism Fever

At the worst times of repression during the military regime, in the 70s, “tudo ...

The Slow Process of Reintegrating Brazil’s Quilombolas

“Quilombos,” communities formed by descendants of ex-slaves, were once the symbol of resistance in ...

Over 2,500 Brazilians Were Freed from Slavery in 2004

In 2004, 2,582 people were freed from slave-like labor conditions on 252 rural properties ...

90 Slaves, Including Kids, Are Freed in Brazil

Slaves Two teams from the Special Mobile Inspection Group of the Ministry of Labor ...