Exploração e persistência do trabalho infantil: aspectos potencializados pela covid-19 no Brasil

Abstract

The present work reports on one of the most serious violations of the rights of Children and Adolescents, child labor, which is characterized by the exploitation of these subjects. Child labor corresponds to an old problem on the world stage and that, despite being a practice considered illegal, on the national stage it is not characterized as a crime, therefore, currently it continues to steal the childhood and adolescence of millions of subjects. . In this line, the present work aims to study the use of child labor from the context of the exploitation of the capitalist mode of production, mainly in periods of economic crime such as the one experienced from 1970 onwards and the health crisis of Covid -19 experienced from the end of 2019, which brought great economic and social impacts that ended up intensifying child labor, in addition to problematizing the causes and consequences that lead children and adolescents so early to the work environment since, according to the Child and Adolescent Statute (ECA), these subjects must not work before the permitted age, mainly if it is for their subsistence. For the elaboration of this work, the dialectical method was used, with a qualitative approach through bibliographical and documental research. It is concluded that the persistence and increase of child labor are not due to the lack of legal apparatus that prohibits it, but due to the non-implementation of these norms.