A Exclusão por trás do riso: uma análise sobre o direito ao trabalho da pessoa com deficiência no Brasil e o freak show

Abstract

This article deals with the role of labor law and the work itself as tools in the construction of the dignity of the disabled person. For this, through the analytical and dialectical methods, being the first to analyze the film Freaks (1932) as a reference and starting point for reflection, with its textual and imagery, a film that exposes in its script a condition of life and work of people with disabilities in the beginning of the century XX in the called Freak Shows. With the objective of exporting, through the dialectical method, a situation of social and labor exclusion that the disabled experience throughout history until the present day, and the challenges to overcome a discrimination of the minority group in order to generate legal reflexions on the theme the present study demonstrates the national and international legislative advances on the theme of social inclusion of people with disabilities, while pointing out the insufficiency of the mere legal imposition for this group to reach work opportunities and professional growth.