
Kids at Work
Emir Estrada
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.
Duration - 5h 51m.
Author - Emir Estrada.
Narrator - Pilar Osorio-Godoy.
Published Date - Wednesday, 01 January 2025.
Copyright - © 2017 NYU Press ©.
Location:
United States
Networks:
Emir Estrada
Pilar Osorio-Godoy
New York University Press
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Description:
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. Duration - 5h 51m. Author - Emir Estrada. Narrator - Pilar Osorio-Godoy. Published Date - Wednesday, 01 January 2025. Copyright - © 2017 NYU Press ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:20
Dedication
Duration:00:00:19
Introduction: Working with La Familia
Duration:00:47:01
1: "If I Don't Help Them, Who Will?": The Working Life
Duration:00:39:34
2: Street Vending in Los Angeles: A Cultural Economic Innovation
Duration:00:43:56
3: Working Side by Side: Intergenerational Family Dynamics
Duration:00:40:59
4: Making a Living Together: Communal Family Obligation Code and Economic Empathy
Duration:00:35:39
5: "I Get Mad and I Tell Them, 'Guys Could Clean, Too!"
Duration:00:35:04
6: Street Violence: "I Don't Put Up a Fight Anymore"
Duration:00:29:26
7: "My Parents Want Me to Be Something in Life, Like a Lawyer or a Hero"
Duration:00:40:05
Conclusion: "So, Are You Saying Children Should Work?"
Duration:00:31:00
Acknowledgments
Duration:00:08:00
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:32