Kids at work : Latinx families selling food on the streets of Los Angeles / Emir Estrada.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Estrada, Emir, author.

Series:

Latina/o sociology series.

Latina/o sociology series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Street-food vendors (Persons)--California--Los Angeles--Case studies.

Street-food vendors (Persons).

Child labor--California--Los Angeles--Case studies.

Child labor.

Latin Americans--California--Los Angeles--Social conditions.

Latin Americans.

Hispanic American families--California--Los Angeles--Social conditions.

Hispanic American families.

Immigrant families--California--Los Angeles.

Immigrant families.

Children of noncitizens--California--Los Angeles.

Children of noncitizens.

Illegal immigration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (151 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

How Latinx kids and their undocumented parents struggle in the informal street food economy Street food markets have become wildly popular in Los Angeles—and behind the scenes, Latinx children have been instrumental in making these small informal businesses grow. In Kids at Work, Emir Estrada shines a light on the surprising labor of these young workers, providing the first ethnography on the participation of Latinx children in street vending. Drawing on dozens of interviews with children and their undocumented parents, as well as three years spent on the streets shadowing families at work, Estrada brings attention to the unique set of hardships Latinx youth experience in this occupation. She also highlights how these hardships can serve to cement family bonds, develop empathy towards parents, encourage hard work, and support children—and their parents—in their efforts to make a living together in the United States. Kids at Work provides a compassionate, up-close portrait of Latinx children, detailing the complexities and nuances of family relations when children help generate income for the household as they peddle the streets of LA alongside their immigrant parents.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Working with la Familia

1. “If I Don’t Help Them, Who Will?”: The Working Life

2. Street Vending in Los Angeles: A Cultural Economic Innovation

3. Working Side by Side: Intergenerational Family Dynamics

4. Making a Living Together: Communal Family Obligation Code and Economic Empathy

5. “I Get Mad and I Tell Them, ‘Guys Could Clean, Too!’ ”

6. Street Violence: “I Don’t Put Up a Fight Anymore”

7. “My Parents Want Me to Be Something in Life, Like a Lawyer or a Hero”

Conclusion: “So, Are You Saying Children Should Work?”

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4798-8107-4

OCLC:

1107595875