Making It at Any Cost : : Aspirations and Politics in a Counterfeit Clothing Marketplace / / Matías Dewey.
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 widespre...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps
- The Structure of La Salada Marketplace
- La Salada Characters
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: ASPIRATIONS AMID DISTRUST
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Methodological Appendix
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index