O trabalho infantil doméstico: uma violência contra crianças e adolescentes

Abstract

The present study approaches a problem of domestic child labor as an expression of the social question. This is an exploratory research based on a bibliographic and documentary survey. Based on Marx's dialectical method, it seeks to apprehend aspects of the dynamics of child labor reproduction, especially that carried out in the domestic space. The study points out that child labor carried out in the domestic space is a historical problem that remains in Brazilian society, even with the advances in facing the numerous forms of violation of the rights of children and adolescents. On the other hand, it is possible to observe the naturalization of domestic child labor based on the sexual division of labor and social sex relations. Domestic child labor is also characterized as one of the expressions of the precarious salary in which children and adolescents have their workforce purchased by third parties, when they do not end up working in situations similar to slave labor, or when they participate in the process. of reproduction of the work force in their own families; they are situations that differ, but that carry the condition of proletarianism as one of their fundamental determinations.