ABSTRACT
This article presents the parcial results of a research which inquires about the significance that the youth from labor class build on secondary school. Special emphasis has been placed on the impact that a working possibility causes at the time of creating a sense of schooling. We focus our concern on teenagers from the labor class since they experience different realities between studying and working. Taking into account both formal and non-formal means there are those ones who do both, while others only study, others work and do not receive education and some neither work nor study. We carried out a semi-structured interview articulating quantitative and qualitative strategies in order to allow deeper analysis. In this way, based on their story, we can establish different links with the categories of analysis and the statistical data obtained from a variety of secondary sources.
KEYWORDS:
significance; secondary school; youth; work