30665 - Children, Youth & Work

Description

Young people engage in various forms of paid and unpaid work in both private and public settings. From emotional labor and care work within the family to door-to-door fundraising for their schools, from helping out in family businesses to creating digital content, even young children make many economic and social contributions to the world around them. The dynamics of child labor, youth unemployment and job training, and young workers’ unionization efforts on college campuses and in the service industry further point to the need for sociological engagement with young people as workers. For this session, we welcome papers from a variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives that explore the intersection of childhood, youth, and work.

Sub Unit

• Section on Children and Youth / Children, Youth & Work

Presider

• Hyeyoung Kwon, Indiana University

Individual Presentations

• The Eldest Daughter's Third Shift Among Former Farmworker Youth - Natalia Candelaria Gonzalez, University of California-Irvine

• Deep Care: Reconceptualizing Care Work of Adolescent Children of Sex Workers and Their Mothers - Anuneeta Chatterjee, University of Calgary

• Translating Welfare: Language Brokering & Public Benefit Navigational Capital - Victoria Maria Ciudad-Real, University of California-Irvine

• The Long-term Effects of Adolescent Work on Adult Socioeconomic Attainment - Jeylan T Mortimer; Jeremy Staff, Pennsylvania State University

Discussant

• Hyeyoung Kwon, Indiana University

Session Organizer

• Jessica Taft, University of California-Santa Cruz