2026-01-222026-01-222025-05-23SILVA, Bruno Nascimento. As infâncias do labor: "Chão dos Lobos" sob a perspectiva de Candoca, Raimundinho e Roberta. Orientador: Fernando Jorge dos Santos Farias. 2025. 27 f. Trabalho de Curso (Graduação em Letras - Língua Portuguesa) - Campus Universitário de Altamira, Universidade Federal do Pará, Altamira, 2025. Disponível em: https://bdm.ufpa.br/handle/prefix/9112. Acesso em:.https://bdm.ufpa.br/handle/prefix/9112The article titled "The Childhood of Labor: ‘Chão dos Lobos’ from the Perspective of Candoca, Raimundinho, and Roberta” aims to understand the representation of child labor in the novel by Dalcídio Jurandir, analyzing its influence on three characters. To that end, the study investigates family structure, objective socioeconomic conditions, and each character’s individual outlook within the narrative. In doing so, it required an engagement with concepts such as cultural capital, symbolic power, social capital, among others, as well as discussions surrounding childhood and child labor. Right from the start, it becomes clear that the characters hold different perspectives on labor: Candoca is a poor boy who works from an early age to support his family; Raimundinho is a talented young man with mathematical skills, yet confined to working as a pastry seller due to lack of educational opportunities; Roberta, on the other hand, represents a girl who transitions from school to early labor in a factory. Thus, the research highlights that child labor in the novel is not merely a narrative element, but a mechanism of social critique. Therefore, the interpretation presented in the article seeks to emphasize the importance of literature as a tool for understanding and questioning the exploitation of children, fostering reflections on its persistence in contemporary society.Acesso AbertoDalcídio JurandirTrabalho infantilLiteraturaRomanceWork childhoodLiteratureNovelCNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTESTrabalho de Curso - Graduação - ArtigoAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Brazil