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Making It at Any Cost


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La Salada is South America's largest marketplace for fraudulently labeled clothing, a sprawling and dangerous bazaar on the fringes of Buenos Aires where counterfeit goods are bought and sold, armed thieves roam the nearby streets, and corrupt police and politicians turn a blind eye to widespread unlawful behaviors. Despite conditions traditionally considered inhospitable to economic growth--including acute interpersonal distrust, pervasive personal insecurity, and rampant violence--business in La Salada is booming under an established order completely detached from the state.

Matías Dewey dives deep into the world of La Salada to examine how market exchanges function outside the law and how agreements and norms develop in the economy for counterfeit clothing. Drawing on seven months of ethnographic research and more than a hundred interviews, Dewey argues that aspirations for a better future shape garment workers' everyday practices, from their home-based sweatshops to the market stalls. The book unearths a new configuration of garment production and commercialization detached from global supply chains, submerged in the shadows of informality and illegality, and rooted in aspiration and opportunity.


About the Author:

Matías Dewey is a senior researcher in sociology at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He was a visiting scholar at the Extra-Legal Governance Institute at the University of Oxford, at MaxPo in Paris, and most recently at the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of El orden clandestino, a Spanish-language book on illegal markets in Argentina, and a co-editor of The Architecture of Illegal Markets: Towards an Economic Sociology of Illegality in the Economy. His articles have appeared in Socio-Economic Review, Latin American Research Review, Journal of Latin American Studies, and Current Sociology.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781477321058
  • Publisher: University of Texas Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Texas Press
  • Height: 221 mm
  • No of Pages: 296
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Weight: 684 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1477321055
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2020
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Aspirations and Politics in a Counterfeit Clothing Marketplace
  • Width: 155 mm


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