Conquistadores de la Calle : : Child Street Labor in Guatemala City / / Thomas A. Offit.
The first comprehensive, book-length study of its kind, Conquistadores de la Calle presents the findings of nearly two years of ethnographic research on the streets of Guatemala City, toppling conventional wisdom that the region's youth workers are solely victims, or that their labor situations...
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Offit, Thomas A., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Conquistadores de la Calle : Child Street Labor in Guatemala City / Thomas A. Offit. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021] ©2008 1 online resource (244 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- One. Introduction -- Two. Street Work in El Guarda and 18 Calle -- Three. Jobs and Income of Child Street Laborers -- Four. Child Street Laborers, Their Families, and the Household Economy -- Five. The Social Nature of Economic Success -- Six. Child Street Laborers and Education -- Seven. The Futures of Child Street Laborers -- Appendix. Summary of Guatemalan and International Legislative Responses to Child Labor -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The first comprehensive, book-length study of its kind, Conquistadores de la Calle presents the findings of nearly two years of ethnographic research on the streets of Guatemala City, toppling conventional wisdom that the region's youth workers are solely victims, or that their labor situations are entirely the result of poverty and family breakdown. Documenting the voices and experiences of the city's working children, this fascinating study reveals counterintuitive motivations for those who choose to abandon schooling in favor of participating more fully in their families' economies. The processes of developing skills and planning for their social and economic futures are covered in depth, presenting evidence that many members of this population operate well above survival level and are decidedly not marginalized or members of an underclass. Conquistadores de la Calle also makes important distinctions between these young workers—a generation of Maya and Ladino boys and girls—and the homeless children or gang youth who have been so much more widely studied. Contextualizing a variety of data, ranging from detailed ethnographic portraits of the children's lives and the monthly income of children engaged in common street vocations (such as shining shoes or serving as porters) to educational histories and socialization activities, Thomas Offit has produced a rich trove of findings in a significant segment of urban economics that is tremendously important for anthropologists, Latin Americanists, and those interested in the lives and labors of children in the cities of the developing world. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022) Child labor Guatemala Guatemala. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110745344 https://doi.org/10.7560/718470 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292794238 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292794238/original |
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