Child Labor in Contemporary Brazil

This paper analyzes the current panorama of the child labor in the Brazilian society, approaching its origins, recent trajectory, effects on the children & adolescents & policies developed to combat it. Based on special tabulations of PNAD 2006, it shows the dimension of the phenomenon &...

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Published inCaderno CRH Vol. 21; no. 54; pp. 551 - 569
Main Author Carvalho, Inaia Maria Moreira de
Format Journal Article
LanguagePortuguese
Published 01.09.2008
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Child Labor
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Summary:This paper analyzes the current panorama of the child labor in the Brazilian society, approaching its origins, recent trajectory, effects on the children & adolescents & policies developed to combat it. Based on special tabulations of PNAD 2006, it shows the dimension of the phenomenon & how precocious activity differs according to age, sex, place of residence, rural & urban, & the geographical regions, marking their conditions of activity & the perverse impacts on the small workers education & health. Considering as much the economical determinant to child labor as the values & symbolic representations that are in the base of its reproduction, the text concludes highlighting as, in the conditions of the Brazilian development, that it is a phenomenon of difficult eradication. Adapted from the source document.
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ISSN:0103-4979