Child labor in the center and south of the province of Buenos Aires. Girls and boys in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2014v6n12p177Keywords:
Work, discourses, child laborAbstract
In the context of the construction of state institutions in Argentina at the end of the nineteenth century, a different image of childhood was gradually constructed. Education and work became central topics in the discourses that addressed the issue. Although the fact that some children and young people had to work to contribute to the family's livelihood began to have negative overtones, many assumed that for poor children work was preferable to leisure, which was the prelude to delinquency. The objective of this paper is to reflect on the way in which the relationship between children and work was perceived in towns in the central and southern countryside of the province of Buenos Aires. We will place special emphasis on the abuses to which minors were allegedly subjected in the workplace, a situation whose existence historians have assumed, but without problematizing it.
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