Child labour implications for adults: Experiences and childhood

• Autores: Denise Pereira dos Santos, Maria de Fátima Pereira Alberto, Rafaela Rocha da Costa, Cristiane Barbosa dos Santos
• Localización: Psicologia & Sociedade, ISSN-e 1807-0310, Vol. 25, Nº. Extra 1, 2013
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The purpose of this paper is to analyze child labour implications for adults who experienced that process when they were children or adolescents. To this end, we used as tool the Historical-Cultural Psychology approach. Five adults who were child labourers participated of this research. Their children were enrolled or egressed to the Program for the Eradication of Child Labour – PETI, and access to these participants occurred by means of the Reference Center for Social Support – CRAS. The saturation criterion (Minayo, 2008) was applied to delimit the number of participants. Open-interviews with life story elements were used as instruments. Data analysis was carried out through the trees of association of ideas (Spink, 2004). As a result, participants reported that early labour brought implications for schooling and health, in addition to losing childhood, and also brought difficulties to obtain employment in the current life.