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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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