Modern Slavery Characterisation through the Analysis of Energy Replenishment

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ID7393103
AutoresGairo Garreto (0000-0003-2475-9524, Instituto Federal do Maranhão), João Santos Baptista (0000-0002-8524-5503, Universidade do Porto, autor de correspondencia), Antonia Da Silva Mota (0000-0001-9728-2072, Universidade Federal do Maranhão), Mário Vaz (0000-0002-6347-9608, Universidade do Porto)
Año2021
Volumen10
Número8
Páginas299-299
Fecha de publicación2021-08-09
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial Sciences (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760
EditorialMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/socsci10080299
OpenAlexW3192412237
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas12

The Brazilian economy was, until the end of the 19th Century, based on slave labour. However, in this first quarter of the 21st Century, the problem persists. These situations tend to be mistaken with “simple” violations of labour laws. This work aims to establish Occupational Health and Safety parameters, focusing on energy needs, to distinguish between the breach of labour legislation and modern rural slavery in the 21st Century in Brazil. In response to this challenge, bibliographical research was carried out on the feeding and energy replenishment conditions of Brazilian slaves in the 19th Century. Obtained data were compared with a sample where 392 cases of neo-slavery in Brazil are described. The energy spent and the energy supplied was calculated to identify the enslaved workers’ general feeding conditions in the two historical periods. The general conditions of food and water supply were analysed. It was possible to identify three comparable parameters: food quality, food quantity, and water supply. It was concluded that there is a parallelism of energy replenishment conditions between Brazilian slaves and neo-slaves of the 19th and 21st centuries, respectively, different from that of free workers. This difference can help authorities identify and punish instances of modern slavery

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