Trabalho em condições análogas às de escravos: a desconcentração da cadeia de produção das empresas de vestuário através das subcontratações de oficinas de costura para obtenção de produtos através de mão de obra barata e migrante

Abstract

The slavery that remains on the jobs’ relations is a global challenge that has a goal its identification and overcoming. That overcoming finds its biggest pertinence due to the invisibility that some practices of exploration of the worker happen on the production chain of the fashion companies. These appears on the market as givers of numbers of offers to their consumers, added to that the low prices that has its products. On this conjuncture, it is possible to identify behind this scenario, the sewing workshops, objects of subcontracting made by brands and shops to the confection of pieces of clothes. Numerous are the cases of works that find themselves in the sewing activities on conditions that seems like slavery: strenuous shifts, unhealthy condition of work, without security nor hygiene, withdraw of the worker’s freedom because of the debts contracted by the costing of the office’s owners on the displacement to the country etc. As a result of that, has the non-observance of the human’s minimal rights, protected by the national and international legal order, especially, human’s dignity, founding principle-value of the rights’ democratic state. So, the present research has as a goal, firstly, to understand the historical and social aspects that determinates or provide the continuity of employers on submitting workers into slavery conditions, on the XXI century. Next, it is referred to the rights that protect the worker both in the international and in the national area, focusing on observing the human’s dignity, principle that fundaments the Federal Constitution of 1988, and it is corollary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. Besides that, it is discussed the international normative aspects on the scope of the United Nations Organization that regulate the relations inside the companies on the market. By the end, it searches to oppose through the exposition of real cases, the reality of the mode of production on the sewing workshops and the normative disciplines of men’s protection such as individual and worker. Are also exposed the action by the Public Power, society and Civil Entities to the combat to slavery work on the sewing workshops.