Entre mucamas e purezas: considerações sobre o trabalho escravo contemporâneo sob uma perspectiva decolonial do direito

Abstract

The historicity of legal science and its undeniable observance of social relations makes explicit the fact that, if the law wants to better serve as a tool for the benefit of society, it must pay attention to the structural and domination practices that permeate such science. In this way, the present work highlights the continuum of subservience practices, especially in the labor field, which encourages the analysis of subordinate labor conditions. In this sense, we analyze what precedes the forms of slavery in Brazilian territory, as well as paying attention to the ways in which the practices of subjugation of male and female workers are continued through the practices of coloniality, in order to provide greater benefits to black female workers who, historically, are victims of the brutal empire of racism and sexism. Thus, from a decolonial perspective of law, contemporary forms of enslavement are analyzed as well as possible mechanisms of resistance to them.