Relações de trabalho na formação histórico econômica do Paraguai

The objective of this article is to present the evolution of labor relations in the economic historical formation of Paraguay. Therefore, it is undertaken an integrated analysis of the main political, social and economic events, of this country in three different periods: the colonial period; the independency period and the postwar Triple Alliance period. It is analyzed the hypothesis regarding the different conceptions on social, economic andpolicies that are undertaken in producing, as genuine characteristics of the different times studied, and if they are crystallized in the systems and modalities of the national labor relations. The methodological approach was applied through a wide literature review, from which the objective is historically contextualized. The conclusions of this work suggest that labor relations in Paraguay have beenshaped, largely, under the influence of external determinants, bothin the encomienda system employed by the Spanish Crown, and in the relationship of semi-serfdom exploited by the State, or by the system of“debt-serfdom”, exploited by the foreign and national private capital.