‘slave labour' in Brazil, focusing on the bovine cattle sector.This paper is part of a series on vulnerable workers in global … production networks: Case studies of forced and child labour in Brazil and India …

A protracted legislative battle culminated in the abolition of slavery in Brazil in 1888. We build a new data set of … coalition. Our results help reconcile previous theories of labor coercion. We find that slavery-intensive districts opposed …

Brazil is frequently portrayed as exhibiting persistent and structural economic inequality that is rooted in the early … inequality for 1905 in what is today Brazil's largest state, using farm-level micro data for some 50,000 farms. Using these … institutions, slavery, farm inequality, and political inequality on long-term development in São Paulo. The principal findings are …

contracts were offered to European laborers during the transition from slavery in Brazil. Building on some new historical … agricultural elites and permitted the immigration of poor and credit-constrained Europeans. This prepared the insertion of Brazil …-bonded immigrants. Second, sharecropping became the most prevalent contract in the first phase of the transition from slavery not …