Matías Dewey

Making It at Any Cost: Aspirations and Politics in a Counterfeit Clothing Marketplace

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An examination of the vast counterfeit clothing marketplace in Buenos Aires known as La Salada, this book is the first ethnographic study to examine how aspirations shape behaviors of workers in an informal and illegal economy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Briscoe Ctr for Amer History Ut-Austin
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9781477321058
• ISBN-10: 1477321055
• Artikelnr.: 58019481

Autorenporträt

By Matías Dewey

Inhaltsangabe

1. Maps
2. The Structure of La Salada Marketplace
3. List of La Salada Characters
4. Acknowledgments
5. Introduction: Aspirations amid Distrust
6. Part I: History, Place, and Politics
* Chapter 1. The Garment Market and the Marketplace
* Chapter 2. Governing La Salada
* Chapter 3. With God and the Devil
7. Part II: Prisoners of Aspirations
* Chapter 4. All I Want Is a Sweatshop
* Chapter 5. The Garment Entrepreneur at La Salada
* Chapter 6. Dynamics of Aspirations
8. Part III: Aspirations in Action
* Chapter 7. Narratives of Sacrifice and Autonomy
* Chapter 8. Taste, Credit, and Bullets
* Chapter 9. Squatters, Cart-Pullers, and Demolition
* Conclusion
* Epilogue
9. Methodological Appendix
10. Notes
11. Works Cited
12. Index