Abstract
The Mariana and Brumadinho disasters represent two of the biggest occupational accidents in Brazilian history. Together, they resulted in the death of nearly three hundred workers at the Samarco and VALE mining companies, majorly, outsourced. . They are part of a logic of overexploitation of work, inherent to the relationship of subservience of Latin American countries to central countries. Using the dialectical method, this article used bibliographic and documental analysis as research techniques.
Keywords:
Marxist Dependency Theory; Extractivism; Health and safety in the workplace