Abstract
Modern slavery in Brazil exemplifies the culmination of reification as theorized by György Lukács, characterized by the commodification and dehumanization of labor and the extreme objectification of workers, who become “human commodities” in the capitalist system—“commodities” that produce other commodities. The concept of reification was incorporated into the 2003 Brazilian law on slave labor, where equating a human being with a thing in the performance of labor is a crime regardless of whether a worker is confined. A escravidão moderna no Brasil exemplifica o ponto culminante da teoria da reificação descrita por György Lukács, a qual é caracterizada pela mercantilização e desumanização do trabalho, e a extrema coisificação dos trabalhadores, que tornam-se “mercadorias humanas” no sistema capitalista—“mercadorias” produtoras de outras mercadorias. O conceito de reificação sobre o trabalho escravo foi incorporado à legislação brasileira em 2003, na qual igualar um ser humano a uma coisa, no exercício do trabalho, é crime mesmo que o trabalhador não esteja confinado.
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