This edited volume studies the complex interrelation of poverty, work, and different stages in the life course, and how it contributes to the permanent existence of poverty and inequality in vulnerable groups in society. Mechanisms of productions and reproduction of these relationships are identified through empirical research carried out in four Latin American countries: Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and Cuba. This book centers on the experiences of individuals in those less favored social groups who may have suffered structural poverty for decades, or who may have been simply deprived of a basic income to cover their most essential needs.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.

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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.

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1.Chapter 1: Introduction Mariana Chaves & María Eugenia Rausky
PART I: Childhood, Poverty & Child Labor2.Chapter 2: Resizing Children's Work: Anthropological Notes on Mexican Girls. Begoña Leyra Fatou 
3.Chapter 3: From childhood to adolescence: vulnerable life stories and persistent inequalities in Argentina since post-convertibility.María Eugenia Rausky
PART II: Youth, Poverty & Labor 
4.Chapter 4: Working lives of youth in poverty in urban ArgentinaGonzalo Assusa and Mariana Chaves
5.Chapter 5: Work and schooling in the life course of poor young people in Rio de JaneiroAna Karina Brenner & Paulo Carrano
PART III: Adulthood, Poverty & Domestic Paid Work
6.Chapter 6: You can't have it all: Patterns of gender and class segregation in paid domestic work in the city of Buenos Aires.Débora Gorbán & Ania Tizziani
7.Chapter 7: The restructuring of labor in Cuba (2008-2016) and Paid Domestic Workers: broken or reconstructed labor trajectories?Magela Romero Almodovar
8.Chapter 8: Conclusion: Final ReflectionsMariana Chaves & María Eugenia Rausky