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Hidden Heads of Households: Child Labor in Urban Northeast Brazil

Hidden Heads of Households: Child Labor in Urban Northeast Brazil

Mary Lorena Kenny
Mary Lorena Kenny
Mary Lorena Kenny
Mary Lorena Kenny
Mary Lorena Kenny
Mary Lorena Kenny
Mary Lorena Kenny
Mary Lorena Kenny
Mary Lorena Kenny

Paperback

General Sociology

ISBN10: 1551117924
ISBN13: 9781551117928
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: May 1 2007
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.00 Width: 5.81 Depth: 0.20
Language: English

In the cities of Northeast Brazil where 50 per cent of the population lives in poverty, children play a key role in the local economy in their households, in formal jobs, and in the thriving informal sector (washing cars, shining shoes, scavenging for recyclables, etc.). Why children migrate to the city, how they negotiate their existence, and why they stay are just some of the questions addressed in this fascinating study.

Mary Kenny spent close to 15 years in the urban areas of Northeast Brazil talking with and interviewing children. She even gave them disposable cameras to document their daily lives (many of the photographs they took are included). Rather than lament a lost childhood, or try to save these children, Kenny explores some of the complex conditions under which these children work and live. She illustrates how unrelenting scarcity shapes family and, by extension, children's options, decisions, and worldviews.

The issues raised in this book are of critical importance. There are no easy answers, but listening to how these children define themselves and their circumstances is an important step towards understanding and ultimately solving economic and social inequality.

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