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Health Risks for Poultry Workers in Brazil in the COVID ‐19 Pandemic
Author(s) -
Campos Silva Allan R.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/blar.13217
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , context (archaeology) , business , public health , poultry farming , production (economics) , migrant workers , environmental health , economic growth , geography , veterinary medicine , economics , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , medicine , virology , nursing , disease , archaeology , pathology , macroeconomics
This article discusses labour relations in the poultry industry in Brazil in the context of the COVID‐19 pandemic. In the meat production and processing industries there have been many complaints about abusive practices that put workers' health at risk. In several small cities across the country, slaughterhouses already act as pandemic contagion risk hotspots. We present an overview of the demeaning treatment of workers and the risks to public health associated with Brazil's poultry industry.