Slave Labor in Brazil

Slavery may seem obsolete notion in a 21st century world, but 40,000 Brazilians find themselves toiling for no real wages and can't leave the distant work camps where they live. Brazilian government officials and human rights activists call it slave labor, they are aggressively trying to eradicate. In Brazil a recruiter plumbs the slums and other poor areas of the vast country and gets people to agree to jobs in distant places. Once separated from home and family, workers are vulnerable to all sorts of abuses, such as being told they owe money for transportation, food, housing and other services. This is known as debt bondage were there labor is consider repayment for there debts; once in debt they lose all control over their conditions of work and what, if anything they are paid making it impossible to repay and trapping them in a cycle of debt. The UN estimates between 25,000-40,000 Brazilians may be slave laborers. Poverty is seen as the main reason people are forced into slave labor.

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Bice , Arthur (January 10, 2009). Government fights slave labor in Brazil. Retrieved January 10, 2009, from Cnn.com/world Web site:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/01/09/brazil.slavery/index.html