Publicación:

Estudio jurídico y social del trabajo infantil en el municipio de Suarez –Tolima

Resumen

The present degree work tries to define in a methodological way the influence of child labor in the levels of schooling of students of the municipality of Suarez Tolima, a municipality that traditionally with high concentration in agricultural production, starting from this rush, tries to stimulate the debate on child labor guidelines issued in large proportion by the International Labor Organization, hereinafter, OTI, which states take as a reference in the design of public policies to mitigate this problem, but in evidence found, legal regulations are very distant of the social reality that children and adolescents face in everyday life in many regions of Colombia. In order to address the legal and social problems of this work, the general objective was to develop a legal and social case study referring to the conditions in which minors under immersion in child labor in Suarez - Tolima perform their duties. To obtain and process the data, a qualitative method with a case study approach was used, with a probabilistic sample composed of 17 teachers of grades 9,10 and 11 in the educational institution of the municipality.