María Eugenia Rausky is Researcher at Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and Professor at Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.Mariana Chaves is Researcher at Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and Professor at Universidad Nacional de La Plata and Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina.

• ​1. Introduction.- Part I Childhood, Poverty and Child Labor.- 2. Resizing Children’s Work: Anthropological Notes on Mexican Girls.- 3. From Childhood to Adolescence: Vulnerable Life Stories and Persistent Inequalities in Argentina Since Post-Convertibility (2003).- Part II Youth, Poverty and Labor.- 4. Working Lives of Youth in Poverty in Urban Argentina.- 5. Work and Schooling in the Life Course of Poor Young People in Rio de Janeiro.- Part III Adulthood, Poverty and Domestic Paid Work.- 6. "You Can’t Have It All”: Patterns of Gender and Class Segregation in Paid Domestic Work in the City of Buenos Aires.- 7. The Restructuring of Labor in Cuba (2008–2016) and Paid Domestic Workers: Broken or Reconstructed Labor Trajectories?.- 8. Conclusion: Final Reflections.

María Eugenia Rausky is Researcher at Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and Professor at Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.Mariana Chaves is Researcher at Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and Professor at Universidad Nacional de La Plata and Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina.

• ​1. Introduction.- Part I Childhood, Poverty and Child Labor.- 2. Resizing Children’s Work: Anthropological Notes on Mexican Girls.- 3. From Childhood to Adolescence: Vulnerable Life Stories and Persistent Inequalities in Argentina Since Post-Convertibility (2003).- Part II Youth, Poverty and Labor.- 4. Working Lives of Youth in Poverty in Urban Argentina.- 5. Work and Schooling in the Life Course of Poor Young People in Rio de Janeiro.- Part III Adulthood, Poverty and Domestic Paid Work.- 6. "You Can’t Have It All”: Patterns of Gender and Class Segregation in Paid Domestic Work in the City of Buenos Aires.- 7. The Restructuring of Labor in Cuba (2008–2016) and Paid Domestic Workers: Broken or Reconstructed Labor Trajectories?.- 8. Conclusion: Final Reflections.