Slavery Vs Urban Slavery

The forms of exploitation of human labor evolved from slavery, through servitude and craft corporations, arising from the employment relationship, especially with the advent of the Industrial Revolution. The slaves, who were legally considered the object of law, worked on the most arduous tasks, which were not considered dignified to the free citizen.

The slavery as can be described means the possession of one person by another. Indigenous and black people brought from Africa were the main victims of that period.

The explorers of the urban slaves take advantage of the fragility of these workers, distant from home and, in irregular situation, to pay negligible wages for long working days, offering subhuman conditions of residence and food.

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the slave being a property, also possesses body, intellectual skills, subjectivity-is, in short, a human being. It is worth remembering that slavery is all manner of degrading work and that limits the freedom of the worker, no matter whether it is physical or moral. It is worthwhile to emphasize the presence of exhaustive work days: the employer exposes the worker to hours of work without rest.
In the modern context we can envision the slave labor in the factories, with the same rigor of rural work, resembling, above all, the exhaustive journeys important to highlight in the analysis of the characteristics of the slave labor that some understand that the Slave labor differs from forced labor.