Financial Practices as Adaptations to Increasing Vulnerability

Hadrien Saiag (hadrien.saiag@ehess.fr)
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Hadrien Saiag: IIAC - Institut interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This chapter studies household-based solidarity and protection mechanisms, through a detailed analysis of their savings and indebtedness practices. It is based on five months of fieldwork carried out in Rosario (Argentina) in 2009. Household budgets reveal a wide variety of practices that reify savings and extend debt relations over time. They also highlight the prominence of domestic solidarity and protection mechanisms. The ubiquity of these household-based mechanisms should be understood as a response to the weakening of employment-based solidarity and protection schemes, induced by the dismantling of the Fordist-like wage-labour nexus that prevailed among Rosario's low-income households until the 1990s.

Keywords: solidarity; protection; savings; debt; informal economy; household economy; Argentina (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Published in Isabelle Hillenkamp; Frédéric Lapeyre; Andreia Lemaître. Securing Livelihoods: Informal Economy Practices and Institutions, Oxford University Press, pp.99-114, 2013, ⟨10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199687015.003.0006⟩

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DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199687015.003.0006

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