O sentido do trabalho para jovens trabalhadores da economia da droga

Drug trafficking is the second largest global economy.After the productive reorganization in response to the '70s capitalism global crisis, the children and teenagers workforce employment has increased, meaning a global child labor expansion.In drug trafficking specifically, children and teenagers workforce increased is associated with changes in the drug trade in the '80s with the cocaine arrival in the retail market and the crack cocaine traffic widespread.These transformations, as well as expand several children and teenagers from this economy, resulted in the labor relations restructuring in them and tying workers to their communities.Facing this reality, the social policies addressed for child labor are irrelevant about both protection and education of these young workers.These policies take unilateral meanings and candied images on this work, hindering an effective social policies development.Seeking to contribute to real confrontation social policies, this paper analyzes the labour sense structure and dynamics in drug trafficking experienced by children and adolescents who works or have worked in this market, presenting key concepts for educational proposals addressing specificities.This research is grounded in historical materialism dialectical method and for the data collection we used semi-structured interviews with young Federal District residents who had experience drug trafficking when children or teenagers.It was also done bibliographic research on the drug trafficking structure and dynamics and theoretical-conceptual survey of the works metamorphoses in modernity and its relationship with education.For the labour senses treatment, we used the hermeneutic-dialectic method and for data analysis we used the data triangulation technique.From this research, we show that early children and teenagers integration in the labor market in a exploitative way generates a fragmented reflection of this activity in the psyche and specifically in the drug trafficking case, the senses fragmentation relates to the masking itself as this activity work -either byproductive organization structure in the flexible accumulation model operated through fragmented trafficking crack, either by the marginality ideology that covers trafficking, that rejects institutional image and isolates the worker.Thus, we point out that to make possible a learning spaces creation, education needs to break the isolation between the world and the worker, the personality fragmentation and community breakdown

Apprenticeship · Capitalism · Deskilling · Geography · Political science · Restructuring · Sociology · Workforce · Engineering · Law · Psychology · Youth, Drugs, and Violence

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