Trabalho escravo nas cadeias globais da moda: propostas para um marco estrutural preventivo

Abstract

This research analyzes the structural dynamics that perpetuate contemporary slave labor in the fashion industry, demonstrating how the fragmentation of Global Value Chains (GVCs), the decentralization of responsibilities, and power asymmetries contribute to labor precarization and systematic human rights violations. Grounded in David Harvey's Critical Globalization Theory and adopting a legal-critical approach, the thesis proposes the construction of a new structural preventive framework aimed at overcoming the traditional repressive logic and addressing, systemically, the vulnerabilities present in GVCs. It advocates the need to reorient globalized capitalism by integrating human rights protection as a central element of business practices and productive governance, through strategies that combine normative innovation, strengthened public governance, active civil society participation, and the valorization of the ecology of knowledges. The proposed new paradigm aims to break with the rationale of profitable illegality, generate effective deterrent effects, and establish the dignity of labor as a foundational reference for the global economy. The study concludes by emphasizing the urgency of aligning economic growth with social justice, transforming human rights protection into a structuring principle of global production dynamics.