Brazilian agrarian policy post 64 and its relation with the reduction of the rural worker to the condition analogous to that of slave

Abstract

The present study has as objective to map how the lack of agrarian reform, a national land policy directed to land distribution and conditions of providing autonomy to rural workers after 1964 influenced the formation of a contingent of workers susceptible to exploration of rural labour in condition analogous to slavery – labour analogous slavery. It is a qualitative research method based on sociological and political literature review to construct a critical analysis. Finally, it is concluded that the actions of the proactive State of modernization created obstacles in the improvement of rural workers living conditions, impoverished them and submitted them to slave-like conditions. There was no social planning or conditions facilitation in order to provide autonomy and independence of rural workers – lack of access to land.