Abstract
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.
Highlights
RESUMEN En la Ciudad de México, durante el periodo posrevolucionario la terapéutica del trabajo se impuso frente a otros tratamientos como forma de prevenir y corregir lo que se consideraba una enfermedad social: la delincuencia infantil
In post-revolutionary Mexico City, work therapy prevailed over other treatments used to correct what was considered a social disease: child delinquency
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
Summary
RESUMEN En la Ciudad de México, durante el periodo posrevolucionario la terapéutica del trabajo se impuso frente a otros tratamientos como forma de prevenir y corregir lo que se consideraba una enfermedad social: la delincuencia infantil. La mano de obra de los niños de los sectores populares fue utilizada en establecimientos de «protección» a la infancia como retribución a lo que recibían en estos lugares. Bajo la lógica del trabajo como regenerador de un cuerpo y una mente enferma, se pretendió convertir a los niños infractores en los futuros trabajadores y de esa forma incorporarlos al proyecto económico del Estado mexicano. 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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