Peer-reviewed article
Child Labour in the Light of the Right to the Dignity of the Person
Trícia Bogossian ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This paper examines child labour in Brazil through the lens of human dignity and the role of social workers in combating it. The authors conducted a literature review of scientific sources, theoretical works and legal frameworks addressing child labour. The study found that while Brazil has laws protecting children from labour and guaranteeing their right to education, child labour remains prevalent. Governments and agencies have responded by creating programs and projects that integrate children into educational settings to reduce labour practices.
Key points
- Brazil has laws protecting children from labour and guaranteeing access to education without exemption
- Child labour indices show high numbers of children engaged in labour practices over time
- Social workers play a role in efforts to fight against child labour
- Government programs and projects aim to adapt children's reality within educational concepts
- Educational programs are presented as a strategy to make labour practices unfeasible
Limitations
This is a literature review without primary data collection, so it does not provide empirical evidence on the effectiveness of specific interventions or current prevalence rates. The document does not describe which programs or projects were evaluated or what outcomes they achieved.
Abstract
The present work aims to discuss the role of the social worker in the fight against child labor, so that there is a minimization of data where children have labor relations. In terms of methodology, the research consisted of a bibliographic context filtering data from journals, scientific articles, theses, dissertations that addressed dialogues about child labor in Brazil. It was found through this mapping theoretical approaches of the main authors, Martins, Amin, Ramidoff and Ramidoff, among others. The data point to the existence of laws that aim to protect children from actions related to work, to which access to education is entitled, not allowing the exemption of this activity for any reason. The index in the retrospect of the years presents a high quantity regarding the number of children who are in child labour practices. As adherence to strategies, in order to minimize data on child labour, agencies and governments present the creation of programs and projects that aim to adapt the reality of children within educational concepts, making labor practices unfeasible.