Living and Working in Poverty in Latin America

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction

   • María Eugenia Rausky, Mariana Chaves

   Pages 1-10

3. Childhood, Poverty and Child Labor

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Resizing Children’s Work: Anthropological Notes on Mexican Girls

      • Begoña Leyra Fatou

      Pages 13-39

   3. From Childhood to Adolescence: Vulnerable Life Stories and Persistent Inequalities in Argentina Since Post-Convertibility (2003)

      • María Eugenia Rausky

      Pages 41-67

4. Youth, Poverty and Labor

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. Working Lives of Youth in Poverty in Urban Argentina

      • Gonzalo Assusa, Mariana Chaves

      Pages 71-97

   3. Work and Schooling in the Life Course of Poor Young People in Rio de Janeiro

      • Ana Karina Brenner, Paulo Carrano

      Pages 99-122

5. Adulthood, Poverty and Domestic Paid Work

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. “You Can’t Have It All”: Patterns of Gender and Class Segregation in Paid Domestic Work in the City of Buenos Aires

      • Débora Gorbán, Ania Tizziani

      Pages 125-145

   3. The Restructuring of Labor in Cuba (2008–2016) and Paid Domestic Workers: Broken or Reconstructed Labor Trajectories?

      • Magela Romero Almodovar

      Pages 147-177

   4. Conclusion: Final Reflections

      • María Eugenia Rausky, Mariana Chaves

      Pages 179-184

6. Back Matter

   Pages 185-187

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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 identified through empirical research carried out in four Latin American countries: Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and Cuba. This book centers on the experiences of individuals in those less favored social groups who may have suffered structural poverty for decades, or who may have been simply deprived of a basic income to cover their most essential needs.

• Latin America
• Poverty
• Brazil
• Argentina
• Adulthood
• latin american politics
• development aid

“This book is a valuable contribution to understanding the complexity of social inequality in Latin America and for the design of public policies. Sharing the focus on life course and the reconstruction of work trajectories of vulnerable sectors in different countries and moments of life, the chapters show that daily work is imperative in life in poverty.” (Amalia Eguía, Professor of Poverty & Social Inequalities, National University of La Plata, Argentina)

“Undoubtedly, this consists of an unprecedented work which unravels the complexity of life in poverty in four Latin American countries.  A sensitive and in-depth life-course analysis of work trajectories, from childhood to adulthood, in the present context of cultural and economic globalization of the South.”  (Lucia Rabello de Castro, Full Professor of Childhood and Youth, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

“This book can be read as an anti-NEET manifesto: an exploration of an entire generation of deprived children and youth that not only are in education, employment and training, but also engaged in improving their living standards and those of their families. Through a biographical method, the vivid case studies on countries such Mexico, Cuba, Brazil and Argentina portrait the opportunities and limits of the future generations in Latin America, divided between the logics of juvenicide and the logics of survival. A comparative ethnography in dialogue with the classical study by Paul Willis Learning to labor.”  (Carles Feixa, Professor of SocialAnthropology, University Pompeu Fabra, Spain)

 

• CONICET, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina

  María Eugenia Rausky

• CONICET, Facultad de Trabajo Social, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina

  Mariana Chaves

María Eugenia Rausky is Researcher at Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and Professor at Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.

Mariana Chaves is Researcher at Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and Professor at Universidad Nacional de La Plata and Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina.

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