As características e os determinantes do trabalho infantil em Minas Gerais em 2004

Abstract

In spite of the significant reduction of the child work in all of the areas of the world in the last 10 years, in agreement with the International Labor Organization (ILO), in 2004 still existed in the world more than 190 million children economically active, which 75 million of them were inserted in dangerous works. In Brazil (and Minas Gerais too), according to the tabulations of PNAD among the period from 1995 to 2004 happened a significant reduction in the number of children economically active, however still exist more than 1,8 million children working even existing at the country one of the more rigorous juridical outlines on the subject. The general objective of this exploratory work is to study which are the decisive factors that influence the child's precocious entrance in the job market, as well as of understanding the working children's profile, the characteristic of the homes in that they live and the characteristic of the person that are reference in the family of the children's in Brazil and, especially, of the children of the state of Minas Gerais. It is believed that the children work is a more complex subject than imagine being influenced by a great variety of factors came from in or out of the families.