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.
Matias 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.
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