It investigates the everyday of poor adolescents based on the report of their job market insertion process. 15 male adolescents have participated on the survey, high school students coming from low-income families, with 18 months of professional insertion, assisted by institutions that empower, insert and accompany adolescents in the formal job market in a Brazilian capital. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews. Considering that professional insertion is a way of citizenship practice, the results show that: assisted insertion in the formal job market is not a total guarantee of protection to their rights; social networks to which they are linked to, can conceal violations of rights when based on relationships of currying favor; the assimilation of social values in the context of relationships in the workplace can result in removal from the Group of peers. However, adolescents have evaluated positively the monitoring provided by the institution.
assisted labour insertion; adolescent worker; citizenship; social rights