Child labor violates the rights of children
enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) of the United
Nations (UN), but also reproduces poverty in our country. In Peru, this type of
work is not a novelty, but historical studies reveal that until the 1990s it
was viewed with indifference by governments and other instances of society. The
present research “Child labor and poverty in Puno”, has as objective: Determine
the association between child labor and reproduction of family poverty in Puno.
The study areas have been selected, taking into account the places with the
highest concentration of children who carry out economic activities with their
parents: The area of Salcedo “the brickworks in the Rinconada”, Jr. Los
Incas and the surroundings of the stadium “ETB”, the Bellavista market and
Mercado Union and Dignidad, as well as some parks and main streets where they
carry out their economic activities informally. The Study Method is inductive
of correlational-longitudinal design. Sample: The universe
of the population under study is made up of adults who were formerly street
children and adolescents in the city of Puno. Results: Child labor interferes in many ways: First, it
decapitalizes in two to three years of study approximately with respect to
those that do not work; second, the effort that work demands them has a
negative impact on school continuity in the future. When not reaching the
expected level in education, the possibility of repetition increases, which in
turn generates delay and facilitates the desertion and consequently by the
constant repetitions and desertions makes possible the definitive abandonment
of the school. Therefore, child labor in the current conditions is twice the
fundamental rights of children, places conditions of informality when they are
adults and reproduces family poverty in our country in a generational manner.
Cite this paper
Mamani, J. I. (2018). Child Labor and Reproduction of Family Poverty in Puno: A Pending Social Debt. Open Access Library Journal, 5, e4473. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1104473.
Avella, A.C.P. and Medina, R.R. (2006) El trabajo infantil y juvenil en Colombia y algunas de sus consecuencias claves. Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Ninez y Juventud, 4, 1-28.
http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=
S1692-715X2006000100008
Fernandez, J. and De los Campos, H. (2005) Estudio de las caracteristicas de los ninnos, ninas y adolescentes trabajadores y sus familias: modalidades de trabajo infantil y peores formas, perfil socioeconomico y cultural de las familias. AECI, IPEC (OIT), CETI, INFAMILIA, CIESU.
Alarcon, W. and Salazar, M. (1996) Mejores Escuelas Menos Trabajo Infantil. Trabajo Infanto-Juvenil y educacion en Brasil, Colombia, Guatemala, Ecuador y Perú. TACRO ONOCCENTI. Bogotá.
Barreto, L. (1999) Vida al Borde de la Vida. Razones para la erradicacion del trabajo nocivo de ninas, ninos y adolescentes en los basurales. Proceso Social/ASE. Lima.
UNICEF (1998) El Trueque Virtuoso: La educacion por trabajo infantil. Un cambio seguro hacia la construccion de la ciudadania de la infancia. San Jose.
Garcia, E. and Araldsen, H. (1995) El debate actual sobre el trabajo infanto-juvenil en America Latina y el Caribe: tendencias y perspectivas. En Apuntes N° 5. Lima.
Cussianovich, A. (2010) Una mirada otra sobre trabajo infantil: Imperativo etico y exigencia politica. En Revista Internacional desde los Ninos/as y Adolescentes Trabajadores. Lima Peru.
Schibotto, G. (2010) El informe global OIT 2010: El triunfo de la razon metonimica. En Revista Internacional desde los Ninos/as y Adolescentes Trabajadores. Lima Peru.
Salazar, C. (1999) Trabajo Infantil y educacion en America Latina: Algunos avances y efectos de las politicas educativas en la decada de 1990. en Nuevas Perspectivas para Erradicar el Trabajo Infantil en America latina (Garcia Mendez E-Salazar M.C. comps.) TM Editores/UNICEF, Bogota.
Ruggeri, L., et al. (2003) Does It Matter We Don’t Agree on the Definition of Poverty? A Comparison of Four Approaches. Working Paper Number 107, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, Oxford.
D’angelo, G. (1997) Trabajo Infantil: Abolicion o erradicacion progresiva? Nuevos terminos de una vieja discusion, en Pininos Revista Centroamericana de Analisis y opinion sobre la Ninez N° 9-10 Tegucigalpa.
Amaya, A. (1997) Trabajo infantil: Un asunto de etica y derechos humanos. Ponencia presentada el Primer Foro Nacional sobre Trabajo Infantil en Nicaragua. Managua.
Figueroa, C. (2000) Monitoreo de programas sociales: Elementos para la construccion de un indice de bienestar en Vasquez Enrique (editor) impacto de la inversion social en el Peru Lima CIUP-IDRC.
