Between leisure and work. Popular childhood in the streets of Mexico City in the 1930s

Abstract

This article aims to show that for children from popular sectors of Mexico City in the 1930s leisure and work times in the streets were not clearly separated. Despite post-revolutionary governments' devoted efforts to build a modern image of the city -which implied erasing these minors from the public space- children continued to circulate through the urban space. In this sense, this text seeks to reflect on the relationship between minors and the city from a social history perspective.