Occupational hygiene in slave work as a potential indicator for typifying the neo-slavery

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2019

Authors

Gairo Garreto (Author) Other; João Santos Baptista (Author) FEUP; Antônia Mota (Author) Other; António Torres Marques (Author) Other

Book

Title: Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health

Pages: 181-189

ISBN: 978-3-030-14729-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-14730-3

Publisher: Springer

Indexing

Scopus - 1 Citation

Scientific classification

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Technology > Safety technology

FOS: Social sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00Q-8MS

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-14730-3_20

Abstract (EN): Until the end of the 19th-century, the Brazilian economy was dependent on slaves¿ work, particularly in rural areas. However, despite all international conventions and technological development that can replace advantageously human labour, slave work persists not only in Brazil but also in the most unsuspected places all over the world. This chapter aims to obtain, through a review of descriptive historical studies, a framework of the environmental conditions in which slaves performed their work and its implications in cases of accident or occupational disease. Electronic databases searched were Science Direct, Scopus, Web of Science, Criminal Justice, Ebsco, and Business Source Complete. Original historical documents were selected for their description of the rural work of slaves in colonial and imperial Brazil. Occupational hygiene, and environmental and climate conditions were compared with the neo-slaved worker¿s conditions. The analysed studies pointed to the existence of diverse environmental conditions with similar exposure typologies among the slaves and neo-slaves across Brazil, even in distinct agricultural activities. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 9