As crianças e o cativeiro do trabalho: políticas de orientação de ingênuos e menores desvalidos ao trabalho na Bahia, 1871-1900.

Abstract

The present work investigates and analyzes the policies that were debated and implemented in the province of Bahia, related to the guidance of underprivileged children to work, with special attention to the ingênuos of the Law of Ventre Livre of 1871. After the advent of the law, parliamentarians, landowners, and other sectors of Bahian society, exhaustively debated how they would develop policies to maintain the use of child labor, during new legislation and abolitionist pressures. In articulations within the Chamber, they justified the promotion of initiatives that guided ingênuos and underprivileged children to work, such as the foundation of agricultural colonies. Through the analysis of the documentary body, the research seeks to show how paths were traced for the coercive integration of helpless and ingênuos children to the social reorganization of work in the province of Bahia between the emancipation era and the first post-abolition years.