Brito Filho, José Cláudio Monteiro de2025-10-022025-10-022022SOEIRO, Laís de Castro. Os obstáculos à erradicação do trabalho escravo na Amazônia. 2022. Dissertação (Mestrado Acadêmico em Direito, Políticas Públicas e Desenvolvimento Regional) – Centro Universitário do Estado do Pará, Belém, 2022.https://repositorio.cesupa.br/handle/123456789/969The main objective of this dissertation is to deepen the discussion about slave labor in the Amazon, based on the analysis of public policies for regional development historically applied in the region and their relationship with work analogous to the condition of slavery. Despite the scope of the topic, the research will focus on the analysis of labor relations established within the Amazonian context, with the aim of the research addressing the following problem: What are the obstacles to the eradication of slave labor in the Amazon? For that, the methodology used for the elaboration of the research is the bibliographic research, carried out by reconciling the legal, sociological, philosophical and historical literature on slave labor. The bibliographic research will be carried out from the reading and analysis of works relevant to the theme, written by authors of relevance in the proposed discussion, such as José Claudio Monteiro de Brito Filho and Violeta Refkalefsky Loureiro. Initially, it is proposed to identify the historical trajectory of Amazonian development and the public policies of regional development, which were applied in this region, to then discuss and analyze slave labor, through a multidisciplinary analysis, also understanding how it collides. with the concept of decent work. After this first moment, the history of Amazonian development and the public policies of regional development, which were applied in this region, in order to discuss the ways in which this “development” is closely related to the roots of slave labor. the need for a more active action by the State to combat this form of exploitation, through inspection and accountability of those who commit this illicit. Finally, the impacts of these policies on labor relations established in the Amazon must be considered and the obstacles to the eradication of slave labor in the Amazon must be established. Thus, the study evidenced that the man of the Amazon, in general, became, historically, the conflicting target of a social and economic process, that did not consider the cultural aspects of the man of the region, from the governmental initiatives of occupation added to the large projects, which contributed to the dissemination of the practice of exploitation of human labor in conditions analogous to slavery.Acesso AbertoAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Brazilhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/br/Trabalho escravoDireitos humanosRelações trabalhistasPolíticas públicasAmazôniaTrabalho decenteDesenvolvimento local-regionalCIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADASDissertação