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Journal of Medical & Clinical Nursing

Child Labour in the Light of the Right to the Dignity of the Person

Author(s): Tricia Bogossian

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.

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