The relationship between children and adolescents schooling process and their early work is focused. It analyzes the formation of subjectivity molded by work and schooling. Twenty-one students, aged 10 to 14 years old, males and females, undertaking informal work activities on the street, were investigated. Predominance of male workers in the service sector was reported, coupled to the fact that the needs, personal satisfaction and time employment were the main reasons for their early introduction to labor. Simultaneously working and studying have some psychosocial implications, such as restricted participation in social activities involving studies and leisure; subjective experiences of prematurely borne responsibilities; uncertainty about the future, and, in a special way, damage to the educational process comprising failure, repetition, backwardness and school quitting.
Early work; schooling; children and adolescents