Hidden Heads of Households offers an ethnographic look at child labor in urban Northeast Brazil. Mary Kenny spent nearly fifteen years interviewing children and collecting photographs they took to document everyday work and migration.

The study explores how children contribute to household economies through formal jobs and informal activities such as car washing, shoe shining and collecting recyclables, and how enduring scarcity shapes family choices and young people's perspectives.

Accessible to scholars and general readers interested in sociology, development and Latin American urban studies, the work centers children’s voices to illuminate the social and economic dynamics of urban poverty.

• Long-term field research and interviews
• Photographs taken by child participants
• Focus on migration, informal work and household strategies

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