A evolução do trabalho infantil no Brasil contemporâneo: fatores associados e limites do PETI para o seu enfrentamento

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Beltrão, Ricardo Ernesto Vasquez
• Orientador(a): Farah, Marta Ferreira Santos
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Trabalho infantil (fatores associados); Desigualdades regionais; Programa de Erradicação do Trabalho Infantil – PETI
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Child labor (associated factors); Regional inequalities; Intergovernmental cooperation; Brazil
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10438/12056

This work analyze the child labor occurrence in Brazil, the factors associated with its development were investigated and some limits of the Program for Child Labor Eradication (PETI) to face the question nowadays. This work was organized in four chapters. In the first chapter are shown the research problem, its objectives and presuppositions, and the main characteristics of the PETI, and then the theoretical background about the intergovernmental cooperation in ambit of the public politics in Brazil was analyzed. In the second chapter the child labor in the international ambit was discussed, by means of analytical work that compares the association between the activity rates of the population from 10 to 14 years old and a set of variables that express the socioeconomic and demographic factors for one sample of the 25 countries with more than 20 millions habitants. The third chapter was developed in a similar way to the previous, analyzing how the children employment developed in the country since middle of last century, and to what extent the differences among these Brazilian states are associated with its socioeconomic and demographic variables, with emphasis on the labor market structure. The fourth chapter analyzes the differences among the Brazilian cities, and concludes that the PETI cannot be considered among the main factors that explain the variations in rates activity of the child population in the last decade, pointing out some of the Program limits related to the promotion of intergovernmental cooperation necessary for the country keep on advancing in an effective way to confronting this theme. The work also includes an overview of the Brazilian academic literature about child labor, one set of studies focused on the analysis of the State actions to face this question were highlighted (Appendix A).