Trabalho infantil nas agroindústrias no Piauí (1990-2000)

Abstract

This paper aims to address child labor from a historical and sociological perspective. The proposed discussion is divided into two parts. The first part seeks to present a brief history of the exploitation of child labor in Brazil and the development of children's rights, as well as to discuss the dimension of this social phenomenon in contemporary times. The second part aims to evaluate the impacts of early labor on the lives of children and adolescents who were exploited and subjected to degrading working conditions at the Companhia Agroindustrial Vale do Parnaíba (COMVAP), in the region of UNIÃO-PI, specifically addressing a major tragedy involving these young workers and how it impacted their lives. From this perspective, a study was conducted with the analysis of the “COMVAP Dossier – Between Sweat and Blood” and newspaper sources that reported the accident and denounced the abuses suffered by the workers. From this, this study identified that hunger, social inequalities and poverty are the main factors that contribute to early insertion into the world of work. Furthermore, it was observed that the exploitation of labor combined with precarious working conditions are the primary causes of work accidents, illnesses and death of these workers.. The main references were Rocha (2015), Gramosa (2024), Silva (2015), Alessi; Navarro (1997), Alves (1991), Silva (1999), Neves (2007), Carvalho (2008), Soares (2018) and Miraglia (2018).