Childhood and Work: protection and obscuration

I will start from the terms comprised in the title to introduce the analysis put forward in this essay, because I believe that they provide an extreme summary of the density of the underlying problem posed to those scientifically interested in investigating the phenomenon of child work. The first pair, childhood and work, has two purposes; one is explicit and a declaration, informing of the topic that will be examined; the other is implicit and a provocation. The second pair, protection and obscuration, provides a useful perspective in order to attempt to give a possible explanation for the conjunction linking the two nouns in the first pair.