“Children with men’s throats”. Practices and Representations of the canillita in Córdoba, Argentina, in the First Decades of the 20th century

Abstract

The job of “canillita”, the name with which newspaper sellers were early baptized in various Latin American countries, enjoyed enormous popularity among children and young people from marginalized sectors of Córdoba, at the beginning of the 20th century. The following work investigates the individual and collective practices and strategies of the canillitas, as well as the disparate representations built around them, and maintains that the situation of exploitation in which publishing companies kept small workers was covered up through intense philanthropic action directed at the sector, above others. equally precarious jobs.