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This article is part of the bibliographical review of a broader research. The main objective is to understand how the labor models of the 21st century have transformed the trajectories of family and economic emancipation that were supposed to inaugurate the transition from youth to adulthood. The categories of young people and adults are questioned linked to the world of work to understand how they have changed in the Latin American context. The documentary review carried out allowed the reflection on one of the aspects most frequently mentioned when analyzing young people: the lack of decent work opportunities, a situation that hinders their transition to adult life. Economic independence has become increasingly difficult to achieve; labor precariousness has slowed down the arrival to adulthood. Given this panorama, many young people have developed new strategies to resolve the tension of accessing work spaces and creating conditions for their emancipation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It's a fact that Mexican anthropology has focused to the analysis of different social sectors related with the rural field. Result of these interest, has generated a vast bibliography in which it has realized ups and downs that has faced the rural sector in different moments of sociopolitical and economic history of the country. However, what's happening in the rural field, there was a specially sector of the rural population which was shelved by the researchers. The sector to which we refer is the youth sector. This work from a set of interviews applied to a group of young people residing in rural contexts, seeks to know basically how these young people perceive the following areas of their development and daily life: family, work, education and leisure and entertainment. Know and analyze the narratives, experiences and perceptions of young people in these areas will be a key element to learn how they designed and built their life projects, in a context characterized by economic crises and by the uncertainty this creates in many areas of life of rural youth communities in Mexico and in particular the rural youth of San Luis Potosí. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses in the new working experiences that had to be implemented by a group of middle class families in Mexico City. Through these new working activities people were searching for ways to cop with the temporal or definitely loss of emplyments and how to face the lack of economic re sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]