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Acknowledgements

1 Uncovering a regional system of informal garment provision: an introduction
Matías Dewey

Part I: Explaining low-priced fashion

2 Drivers of informality in the Latin American garment sector: regulation, compliance and law enforcement
Matías Dewey

Part II: The downstream sweatshop

3 Creative copying: modinha and the dynamics of innovation and imitation
Thalita Calíope and José Carlos Lázaro

4 The rise of entrepreneurship in Pernambuco’s informal garment marketplace: narratives, practices and history
Renata Milanês

5 Provincializing ethical and sustainable fashion: learning from Guatemala’s informal garment sector
Kedron Thomas

6 Cooperation in a neoliberal production landscape: Bolivian workers in Buenos Aires’ garment industry
Karlotta Jule Bahnsen

Part III: Garment-oriented marketplaces

7 ‘I’ve been coming to Brás for 30 years’: resilient sociotechnical infrastructures of production and trade in an enduring garment district
André Vereta-Nahoum

8 Taming informal market violence: clashes and structure in the making of La Salada and other gray marketplaces
Jacinto Cuvi and Javier Auyero

9 Constructing a marketplace: real estate business and government in Gamarra, Lima
Moisés K. Rojas

10 Governing informality: the case of La Cachina Fashion in Lima, Peru
Francesco Ginocchio

Part IV: Trading garments

11 Beyond global chains: informal wholesale clothing circuits and production in Argentina
Gustavo Ludmer

12 Trading garment at night: practices and aspirations in informal commerce
Felipe Rangel

13 Second-hand clothing in the style of Monterrey, Mexico
Efrén Sandoval

14 Never quite formal: growth and constraints of Korean wholesale enterprises in the Argentine garment industry
Jihye Kim

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