Female slave labor and agricultural workers’ narratives in Brazil

Abstract

Analysis of the forms of precariousness and enticement of women to slave labor, based on data from women rescued from slave labor and reports from workers and their experiences in migration situations. We used a literature review on gender issues, besides the systematization of data from the Pastoral Land Commission to categorize and differentiate women workers rescued from slave labor and interviews with migrant women workers. The data shows a small number of women workers that are rescued. This low incidence is strongly related to the naturalization of precarious work for women, especially domestic work. The reports point to situations of domestic work that reserve for women the condition of subordinate.