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In I Making It at Any Cost: Aspirations and Politics in a Counterfeit Clothing Marketplace, i Matías Dewey examines the bottom-up dynamics that drive La Salada, the "largest low-cost garment marketplace in Latin America" (1). By concentrating on a single market, and most notably, one on the true margins of the global production chain, Dewey is able to show the microlevel dynamics that underpin a marketplace that is central to its industry and to the larger Argentine economic and political equilibrium as a whole. [Extracted from the article]