This paper studies the history of bonded labor in the plantations of São Paulo. Brazilian farmers proposed various contracts to bond immigrant households with a credit-labor interlinkage. The aim is to discuss why different laborrental arrangements were adopted. In particular, vis-à-vis the...

Recent works in mainstream economic literature have attempted to explain social problems such as suicide and drug use among workers as a consequence of income loss, job loss, status loss, and alienation. This last concept is important in the Marxist tradition, so much so that Marx and Engels...

This paper explores the impact of illegal markets on modern slavery, focusing on the Brazilian government's complete shutdown of the mahogany market in the late 90s. Utilizing a quasi-experimental design that exploits the natural variation in the occurrence of mahogany trees in Brazilian...