Abstract
Verónica Gago’s book is a tour de force through more than a century of economic and political thought—as well as Buenos Aires’s La Salada market, clandestine textile workshops, and migrant labor networks. Gago traces the perpetuation of neoliberal logic through the market itself and individuals’ strategies in chapter 1, the textile workshops and Bolivian labor networks that staff them in chapters 2 and 3, and the neighborhoods that house workers and workshops in chapters 4 and 5. John C. Cross’s 1998 ethnography Informal Politics: Street Vendors and the State in Mexico City (Stanford University Press) examines how street vendors in Mexico City created livelihoods, interest groups, and pockets of popular contestation out of crisis and authoritarian cleavages.
