Trabalho e infância na vida de meninos e meninas trabalhadores(as) em lavouras de fumo.

Abstract

This study treats the childish work on the perspective of the working children on tobacco field work, through the investigation of the sense producing that the job and the childhood gets to the children. The methodology applied was the social constructionism, as Spink (1999) proposed. The data collecting was made in a country school in Santa Cruz do Sul City, where I realized weekly visitings, during a five months period. On and after the interviews with 10 working boys and girls, in the tobacco field work and the register of the daily dialogues were analyzed these topics: the field work, the house work, the school, the childhood and the plans to the future. The senses water fullness imputed by the children and adolescents to these different areas from their lives interprets the ways of think and see the world and the life. The results showed different senses for the “field” work, “house” work or “city” work, delimitating a value hierarchy, related to eatery questions, kind and social order. Besides, to them, the job and the childhood aren’t incompatible areas as it shows the contemporary imagined and the work fixes spaces and times in their lives. In spite of the playing time being exiguous, the childhood pictures correspond to the hegemonic conception in our society, which is reacting on the reality view, getting other meanings. This way, although the children and the adolescents also join the hegemonic childhood model, to what children mustn’t, the job is considerated on and after a formative instance, and of solidarity, being showed as unhistorical and belonging to a moral arrangement.