No fio da navalha, entre ser vagabundo ou “de bem”: trabalho infantil sob perspectivas e práticas das famílias pobres frente aos discursos dos atores sociais.

Abstract

The investigative work proposed in this dissertation focuses on the difficulties, the dramas and the tensions between the different actors related to child labor in Campina Grande / PB, both those who work in combat and the families that use it. We sought to understand from which “social place” the actors' positions are produced. Economic, political and social needs are understood as concrete historical situations. And from that, it analyzed the different discourses and the power relations that are placed in the social positions they occupy. In this puzzle, it also sought to situate and explain the interpretations of child labor of families served by the Rwanda Program and how these discourses materialize in social practices. The data presented come from a qualitative nature, with a script of semi-open interviews and a record of life stories. Fragments of statements from the interviewed subjects were inserted through narratives of working children, family members, education managers, managers of social institutions, managers of public institutions to combat child labor. Understanding, therefore, the different positions, what they do say and practice, related to child labor, marked by subjectivities, social narratives. Three families were interviewed with children in work situations, assisted by the Rwanda Program, the PETI coordinator, the Rwanda program coordinator and social worker, a Guardian counselor and the Labor Prosecutor. Finally, the statements of children and people from the Department of Education, teachers, the Judge of Childhood and institutions of law were collected in two events, “Celebration of the 27 years of the Statute of the Child and Adolescent” and “Painting Rights - 28 years of ECA ”. Official data were also collected from the Municipal Secretariat of Social Assistance of Campina Grande (SEMAS), from the Service of Coexistence and Strengthening of Links (SCFV) and from the Rwanda Program. Many points against the fight against early work were observed, it is clear that effective action is possible. That depends on a set of actions, involving the different actors. All with a real transformative desire. Society alone will never succeed. Poor families even less. It depends mainly on political will, especially those in power.