O trabalho análogo à escravidão nas fazendas maranhenses com base na análise do processo trabalhista de Gilberto Andrade

Abstract

This Final Course Project analyzes the practice of slave-like labor in Maranhão, taking as its object of study labor case No. 2624/2000, brought against farmer Gilberto Andrade. The central problem of the research is to understand how current labor exploitation practices, such as exhausting working hours, debt bondage, degrading conditions, and multiple forms of violence (physical, moral, and psychological), result from the reinterpretation of characteristics of colonial slavery, such as coercion, violence, dehumanization, and the denial of fundamental rights of colonial slavery, showing that the abolition of 1888 did not ensure full citizenship, but reproduced new forms of domination and exclusion. The objective is to investigate the historical, social, and structural bases of slave-like labor in Maranhão, identifying its impacts on the lives of workers and relating it to structural racism and socioeconomic vulnerability. The analysis demonstrates that such practices constitute a system of exploitation that denies the dignity and fundamental rights of victims, reaffirming historical inequalities and requiring, in order to combat them, not only enforcement actions, but structural reforms, social inclusion policies, and the strengthening of full citizenship.