In this paper, our goal is to analyse the implications of the early insertion of children in the work world in the light of Vygotskian propositions. We use reflections from many researches produced over ten years experience in this area. Vigotski understands development as a dialectical process that involves or constitutes periods of crises and stability, from the child’s activities in the social environment. Researches have revealed that precocious insertion in work begins around 7 years old, through a network consisting of relatives and friends who facilitates this entry. Others remarkable aspects of these researches are the risks to health and the consequences to school achievement. The crisis of the seven years old, whose experiences acquire sense to child, coincides with the end of childhood of the poor segments of Brazilian society. These aspects make the child to reproduce the imaginary of work’s naturalization. A childhood that is developed in certain objective conditions, in which the search for providing the necessities and the naturalised culture of precocious work, takes the time to play and disrupts the educational environment , what configures the child consciousness and her relationship with the environment, which contributes to the precocious adulthood process and automates.
Child labour; development; Vigotski