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Financial Practices as Adaptations to Increasing Vulnerability

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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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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.

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  • Hadrien Saiag, 2013. "Financial Practices as Adaptations to Increasing Vulnerability," Post-Print halshs-02343508, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-02343508
    DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199687015.003.0006
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    1. Hadrien Saiag, 2020. "Financialization from the margins," Post-Print hal-02516543, HAL.

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