Neste texto presta-se um tributo ao trabalho enquanto valor humano, fator de identidade e integração social e profissional. Além de se reconhecer o seu legado histórico, colocam-se em confronto as tensões entre utopias e realidades do trabalho. Numa análise comparada entre as realidades laborais portuguesa e brasileira, enunciam-se um conjunto de transformações ocorridas nos mercados laborais dos dois países, as quais, tendo como epicentro a precariedade contemporânea, são uma espécie de antecâmara que anuncia o afastamento da dignidade laboral. Consequentemente, são analisadas formas de escravatura contemporâneas nos dois contextos, uma mais situada, no quadro da atividade agrícola em Portugal e outra, no contexto brasileiro, um pouco mais difusa e inscrita no tecido social brasileiro. Conclui-se o texto com a necessidade de adotar urgentes medidas que visem dignificar o trabalho e que dependem da vontade e mobilização de múltiplos protagonistas.
This article aims to analyze the perceptions of parliamentarians about contemporary slave labour in Brazil. We examined the opposition speeches to the Constitutional Amendment Proposal (PEC) nº 438/2001, processed between 1999 and 2014. That proposal aimed to establish the expropriation of properties where such a form of work was found. From a methodological point of view, we use Critical Discourse Analysis. Several discursive strategies were identified in order to avoid the approval of the referred PEC. Among them, we chose to analyze the categories that we call ‘inversion of guilt’, ‘fantasy’, and ‘exceptionality’. The study of the speeches showed the inexistence of proposals of policies to confront the issue, policies that were pushed aside in the name of an evasive, conservative and even reactionary debate. We observed an evident concern of parliamentarians with agribusiness but a lesser concern in addressing the conditions in which the enslaved workers rescued by state inspection were found.
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