Fashion from Below : Intersectional Inequalities and Transformations in Buenos Aires' Garment Industry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bahnsen, Karlotta Jule.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2026.

Summary:

In Buenos Aires garment industry, workers reshape precarious working conditions through collective organization and throughout their trajectories of migration and garment work.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

List of Figures

List of Tables

Introduction

1.1. Uneven Global Fashion Production from a Local Perspective

Becoming a Cooperative in Buenos Aires' Popular Economy

Gender(ed) Networks: An Intersectional Perspective on Assembly Work

1.2. Cooperative Shopfloor Ethnography

Tracing la movida textil

1.3. Migration and Garment Production on a City Scale

Bolivian Migration to Argentina

1.4. Workers, not Enslaved People

1.5. Tracing the Threads: The Structure of the Book

From Urban Sweatshops to Cooperatives in Buenos Aires' Popular Economy

2.1. Crafting the Transnational Space of Fashion from Below

Transnational Social Networks of Migration

The City as an Unequal Space

2.2. From Overlockista to Cooperativista

2.3. Beyond Informality

Political Aims and the Popular Economy in Argentina

Plural Complementary Economies in Bolivia

Baroque Economies and Transnational Motley Collectives

Concluding Remarks

Access to a Hidden Field

3.1. Can the Costurexs Speak?

3.2. Tracing Apparel through the City

Antonio and the Lavadero Los Angeles

Relations Forming the Network of Production

Urban Sites of Production

The Industry as a Multi‐Sited Field

3.3. Unplanned Ethnography from Afar

3.4. Talking about Migration and Garment Production

Gaining Contacts

Narrative Interviews with Female Garment Workers

Interviews at the Cooperative

Analysis of Interview Material

3.5. Planchar, Doblar, and Ch'allar

Ethnographic Fieldwork on the Cooperative Shopfloor

Poniendo el cuerpo: Working as a Helper

Reconciling Field‐ and Assembly Work

Migration and Production in Buenos Aires' Social Space of Fashion

4.1. Shifting Urban Spaces of Production and Consumption.

4.2. El Bajo Flores

A (labor) market on the streets

Excursus: Migration and Urban Apparel Production

Jewish Pioneers of Urban Textile Production

Korean Fashion Families

Migrantes Costurerxs and Sweatshop Entrepreneurs from Andean Bolivia

4.3. El precio justo - Negotiating Fair Prices

4.4. Villa Celina and La Salada

Looking for 'lo de Gustavo': Inside Villa Celina

From Villa Celina to the Cooperative

La Salada: Entering the Market via YouTube

¡Todo trucho! All Fake?

4.5. Urban Circuits of Fashion Production

The Upper Circuit

The Upper‐Popular Circuit

The Popular Circuit

Multi‐circuit engagement

Conclusions

Transnational Trajectories and Deferred Aspirations of Progress

5.1. Becoming a Migrant

5.2. Working in the Garment Industry

Working "con cama"

Trapped in the Workshop, Trapped in the Network

5.3. Gaining Mobility within la movida textil and in the Transnational Space of Fashion

Becoming Tallerista or Cooperativista

Becoming a Cooperative

6.1. Producing the Cooperative Shopfloor

Overcoming Obstacles: Formalizing Assembly Work with the CTEP

Post‐Pandemic Modifications in the Production Network

6.2. Celebrating Abundance and Community

Celebrations using Virtual and Transnational Spaces: The Velatorio of Doña Elvira

Making Flexible Use of Time, Space and Machinery

Distraction in Gendered Spaces: Community Formation through Football

6.3. Hacerse Valer

Reading Garments, Calculating Prices

Time is Money: The Intermediaries

Making Mistakes and Taking Risks

6.4. Changing Social and Gendered Relations While Becoming a Cooperative

The Division of Productive and Reproductive Work

A Matter of Time: Gender Relations, Garment Work, and Political Activism

Fashion from Below.

7.1. Regional Dynamics from Below Sustaining la movida textil

7.2. Spatial Organization of the Urban Apparel Industry

7.3. Negotiations of Gendered Trajectories between Migration and Garment Work

7.4. Becoming a Cooperative in a Neoliberal Industry

7.5. Final Reflections

References

Bibliography

Internet Sources

Argentine economics, inflation and exchange rates

Law, Labor politics and Statistics

Social Organizations and NGOs

La Salada

Youtube Sources about the clothing markets

Online Articles (Blogs and Newspapers)

Appendix

List of textile industry related terms used in Spanish

Interview material in its Spanish original

CHAPTER 1, Introduction

CHAPTER 4, Migration and Production in Buenos Aires' Social Space of Fashion

CHAPTER 5, Transnational Trajectories and Deferred Aspirations of Progress. Gendered Experiences of Migration and Garment Work.

CHAPTER 6, Becoming a Cooperative. Value(s) and Negotiations in Flexible Cooperative Production.

List of Interviews

Members and Productive Units of the Cooperativa Candelaria (2019-2022).

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

3-8394-6175-8

OCLC:

1603128643