Capital social y trabajo infantil estrategias laborales de niñas y niños en un mercado de la ciudad de Ambato

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to understand the experiences and representations that boys and girls have about working in a market in the city of Ambato. It started from the actor´s point of view to restructure their relationship networks and how they and their families generate types of capital in the market space. The stories presented here present many sciences that cannot be omitted, however work in the market is not only reduced to deficiencies, but also to solidarity that is to say, he realices what childhoods in the market have to survive and not only from deficiencies. Childhoods are shape by a network of relationships which leads us to understand that the market is a learning space and subsist thanks to them.