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The chapter is set up as a presumptive justification for young people’s right to work and participate in the making, creating, and production of space. Although it is clearly not appropriate for young people to show up in dangerous and exploitative workplaces, it is nonetheless not necessarily clear what constitutes danger and exploitation or what, even, constitutes work. The chapter, then, is in part a consideration of the workplaces where we do not find young people, the places where our existence would benefit from their presence, and the places that enable play, surprise, and dislocation from adult sensibilities. It is also about educational spaces and young people’s right to fair and just educational practices and a learning environment that is not tied so tightly to the excesses of the global marketplace. Examples are drawn from a child work project in Mexico and the work of young people as activists for their own education in Chile with the idea that these two stories highlight the radical and transformative work of children and youth.
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Aitken, S.C. (2017). Reproducing Work, Education, and Revolution: Two Latin American Case Studies. In: Abebe, T., Waters, J. (eds) Laboring and Learning. Geographies of Children and Young People, vol 10. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-032-2_1
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