Living and Working in Poverty in Latin America Trajectories of Children, Youth, and Adults /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rausky, María Eugenia (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Chaves, Mariana (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Governance, Development, and Social Inclusion in Latin America
• Subjects: Latin America-Politics and government.; Economic development.; Social change.; Economic development-Environmental aspects.; Poverty.; Latin American Politics.; Development and Social Change.; Regional Development.; Development and Sustainability.; Development Aid.

This edited volume studies the complex interrelation of poverty, work, and different stages in the life course, and how it contributes to the permanent existence of poverty and inequality in vulnerable groups in society. Mechanisms of productions and reproduction of these relationships are identifie...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• Part I Childhood, Poverty and Child Labor
• 2. Resizing Children's Work: Anthropological Notes on Mexican Girls
• 3. From Childhood to Adolescence: Vulnerable Life Stories and Persistent Inequalities in Argentina Since Post-Convertibility (2003)
• Part II Youth, Poverty and Labor
• 4. Working Lives of Youth in Poverty in Urban Argentina
• 5. Work and Schooling in the Life Course of Poor Young People in Rio de Janeiro
• Part III Adulthood, Poverty and Domestic Paid Work
• 6. "You Can't Have It All": Patterns of Gender and Class Segregation in Paid Domestic Work in the City of Buenos Aires
• 7. The Restructuring of Labor in Cuba (2008-2016) and Paid Domestic Workers: Broken or Reconstructed Labor Trajectories?
• 8. Conclusion: Final Reflections.