Erradicação do trabalho escravo em Mato Grosso : práticas e articulações com a vigilância em saúde do trabalhador

Abstract

The contemporary slave labor is a grave social problem to be faced by Brazil and the state of Mato Grosso. Several reports has been done over the last decades, by entities bonded to social movements and by non-governmental organizations about the occurrence of this practice, mainly connected to the rural sector. In this way several devices has been adopted in order to eradicate the slave labor. The government articulation becomes necessary in facing this damnable practice. The health sector is one of the responsible actors for identification and eradication of the labor in condition analogous to slavery. The work searched through qualitative exploratory research identify the practices and acts developed in the state of Mato Grosso in the period of 2003 to 2013 as well as its possible articulations with the health surveillance of workers in the state. . The results demonstrated that there are several practices aiming at the eradication of contemporary slave labor in Mato Grosso and the majority of them is connected to the labor area and social security. The health area, through the worker's health surveillance, in spite of being actor in some practices do not develop specific actions, joint and Intersectoral actions this object. It is concluded that the principal practices of combat involves a heterogeneity of actors of the State and of civil Society, with repressive actions, preventive and educative. The joints of the worker's health surveillance in the State of Mato Grosso with the practices for the eradication of slave labor can strengthen these performances and still contribute to the coping strategies of the various challenges in the context of agribusiness, among which figure the work contemporary slavery.