A remedy against delinquency: child labour in lock-up institutions in post-revolutionary Mexico City
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https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.2008.v60.i2.259Keywords:
Work therapy, Childhood, Child labor, Juvenile court, DelinquencyAbstract
In post-revolutionary Mexico City, work therapy prevailed over other treatments used to correct what was considered a social disease: child delinquency. Thousands of children took up the fields of farm schools as well as workshops in reformatories and industrial schools. The manual labor carried out by children of the popular sectors was used in childhood establishments as a way to make up for what they received in those places. Based on the logic that work as regenerator of a sick body and an ill mind, the Mexican state tried to turn the young delinquents into the future workers.
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2008-12-05
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Sosenski, S. (2008). A remedy against delinquency: child labour in lock-up institutions in post-revolutionary Mexico City. Asclepio, 60(2), 95–118. https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.2008.v60.i2.259
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