This article discusses two points about agribusiness from a historical comparison between the approach of Upton Sinclair and Bertolt Brecht on labor in slaughterhouses in the United States during 1904 to 1931 and the Brazilians slaughterhouses in nowadays. These questions relate to the process of capital accumulation and degradation of labor and workers in this sector.
slaughterhouse; Upton Sinclair; Bertolt Brecht
