Artistic Child Labour under the Federal Constitution

This research focuses on the conflict between the Federal Constitution and ordinary laws, considering the Consolidation of Labour Laws, the Statute of the Child and Adolescent and the Convention on Minimum Age for Admission to Employment, number 138, from the International Labour Organisation, ratified by Brazil. It is a fact that the practice of authorising child artistic work in Brazil contradicts national laws and international programmes that seek to combat child labour. In view of the conflict of laws and reality that exists in Brazil between the prohibition of child labour and its authorisation for artistic work, and between the movement to combat child labour and the work of child artists, it is necessary to analyse to what extent the work of child artists is beneficial.