English
In Rosario’s industrial neighbourhood, households’ budgets reveal a wide variety of practices aiming at reificating savings and extending debt relations over the time. Those practices must not be understood as an hypothetical “return to barter”: on the contrary, they express the form taken by the financialization of social relations around Rosario. Through their relationship to debt, they express a set of complex social relations. They are analysed as adaptations to new constraints, which arose from the dismantling of the fordist wage-labour nexus.
Keywords
- financialization
- savings
- indebtedness
- Argentina
- wage-labour nexus