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  • The Heart of Mentorship

    Building Empowering Relationships in the Academy

    by Emir Estrada, Veronica Montes, Fatima Suarez, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo ...
    Series series Latina/o Sociology
    A fascinating and important understanding of the role relational mentoring can play in higher educationThe mentor-mentee relationship is one of the most critical aspects of academic training. Mentors provide intellectual and personal support, information about career opportunities, and arrange financial assistance through research assistantships or fellowships. The initiators of The Heart of ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

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  • Kids at Work

    Latinx Families Selling Food on the Streets of Los Angeles

    by Emir Estrada ...
    Series Book 7 - Latina/o Sociology
    "[A] groundbreaking book uncovers the . . . indispensable role that children play as co-contributors to the household economy of our most vulnerable families." —Zulema Valdez, author of Entrepreneurs and the Search for the American DreamStreet food markets have become wildly popular in Los Angeles—and behind the scenes, Latinx children have been instrumental in making these small informal ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Kids at Work

    Latinx Families Selling Food on the Streets of Los Angeles

    by Emir Estrada ...
    Narrated by Pilar Osorio-Godoy ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 52 min

    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 ... Read more

    $23.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    A historical and cultural exploration of the devastating consequences of undervaluing those who conduct the “women’s work” of childcare and housekeepingIn taking up the mothercoin—the work of mothering, divorced from family and exchanged in a global market—immigrant nannies embody a grave contradiction: while “women’s work” of childcare and housekeeping is relegated to the private sphere and ... Read more

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  • Sacrificing Families

    Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders

    by Leisy J. Abrego ...
    Widening global inequalities make it difficult for parents in developing nations to provide for their children, and both mothers and fathers often find that migration in search of higher wages is their only hope. Their dreams are straightforward: with more money, they can improve their children's lives. But the reality of their experiences is often harsh, and structural barriers—particularly those ... Read more

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  • The Feminist Subversion of the Economy

    Contributions for a Life Against Capital

    by Amaia Pérez Orozco ...
    Translated by Liz Mason-Deese Mason-Deese ...
    The first book by Amaia Pérez Orosco translated into EnglishOne of the leading thinkers on the Spanish left explores the interactions of patriarchy and capitalismConnects theoretical arguments with on-the-ground lived experiencesHow has social reproduction been transformed by a series of environmental and public health crisesPEN Award winning translator of Spanish feminist economic texts Liz Mason ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bananeras

    Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America

    by Dana Frank ...
    This story of Latina labor organizers is "a vital accounting of the struggles still being waged" (Margaret Randall, author of When I Look Into the Mirror and See You: Women, Terror, and Resistance).Women who pick and pack bananas in Latin America have organized themselves and gained increasing control over their unions, their workplaces, and their lives—while making gender equity central in their ... Read more

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  • I'm Neither Here nor There

    Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty

    by Patricia Zavella ...
    I’m Neither Here nor There explores how immigration influences the construction of family, identity, and community among Mexican Americans and migrants from Mexico. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Patricia Zavella describes how poor and working-class Mexican Americans and migrants to California’s central coast struggle for agency amid the region’s deteriorating economic conditions and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Porque Estamos Aquí

    Puerto Rican Feminisms In but Against Empire

    Edited by Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón ...
    A future classic collection of Puerto Rican feminist writing that spans time, terrain, and phases, invokes voices across generations and fields, and bridges island and diaspora.In her years of scholarship and activism with fellow Puerto Rican feminists, editor Jessica N. Pabón-Colón reached for a feminism to ground her work and validate the women who paved her way—but in her search for a specific ... Read more

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  • Owners of the Sidewalk

    Security and Survival in the Informal City

    by Daniel M. Goldstein ...
    Series series Global Insecurities
    Many of Bolivia's poorest and most vulnerable citizens work as vendors in the Cancha mega-market in the city of Cochabamba, where they must navigate systems of informality and illegality in order to survive. In Owners of the Sidewalk Daniel M. Goldstein examines the ways these systems correlate in the marginal spaces of the Latin American city. Collaborating with the Cancha's legal and permanent ... Read more

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  • Domestica

    Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence, With a New Preface

    by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo ...
    In this enlightening and timely work, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo highlights the voices, experiences, and views of Mexican and Central American women who care for other people's children and homes, as well as the outlooks of the women who employ them in Los Angeles. The new preface looks at the current issues facing immigrant domestic workers in a global context. ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • The Chicana Motherwork Anthology

    Edited by Cecilia Caballero, Yvette Martínez-Vu, Judith Pérez-Torres, Michelle Téllez, Christine X Vega ...
    Series series The Feminist Wire Books
    The Chicana M(other)work Anthology weaves together emerging scholarship and testimonios by and about self-identified Chicana and Women of Color mother-scholars, activists, and allies who center mothering as transformative labor through an intersectional lens. Contributors provide narratives that make feminized labor visible and that prioritize collective action and holistic healing for mother ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD