Trabalho infantil e seus impactos para o desenvolvimento das crianças e adolescentes no Brasil

Abstract

This article aims to present the results of a research that resulted in the final course completion work, which aimed to understand how child labor impacts the social development of children and adolescents in Brazil. The objectives of this research sought to identify which forms of child labor are prevalent in Brazil; draw the profile of children and adolescents in child labor situations and analyze the social, physical and psychological impacts of this violation on children and adolescents. The research was qualitative, exploratory and documentary in nature, through the assessment of journalistic reports (2022 to 2024). For the analysis of reality, the critical dialectical method and content analysis and its central categories were used: historicity, totality and contradiction. To analyze the data, content analysis was used. Child labor is a complex phenomenon, which requires an approach that takes into account the diversity of consequences and impacts that affect children and adolescents, but also on society. From the surveys carried out, it was possible to identify that Brazil is very far from eradicating child labor due to the lack of public policies and above all the naturalization of child labor as a means of subsistence for the poorest classes.