
The (In)Visibility of Workers: From Antiquity to the Modern World
By Fábio Duarte Joly, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto. The Covid-19 pandemic, in addition to being a serious health crisis that the world is currently experiencing, brought to light social inequalities that were already present, but which have now become more explicit. For example, in Brazil, as elsewhere, the term "invisible" has been applied to the informal workers – those without any record in official government data and who, therefore, would be as if they "did not exi