Buy or barter? Illegal yet licit purchases of work in contemporary Sweden

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  • Lotta Björklund Larsen
  • Lotta Björklund
چکیده

This article explores the tensions between buying and bartering a service in contemporary Sweden by analyzing the acceptable purchase of svart arbete—informal exchanges of work. It is a commonplace phenomenon, but also widely debated, as it is seen as detrimental to welfare society, eroding taxpaying morals and solidarity with fellow citizens. Settling the svart deal with money makes the links to market and state domains more pertinent. Even cash-settled deals are therefore often referred to as barters to create a reverse disentanglement, away from the formal market and moved closer to the realm of social exchanges. The informants express a verbal creativity in a joking manner. Exploring synonyms and metaphors reveals the informality, but the talk also shows that, as exchanges, they are part of everyday life. The article thus describes how illegal yet licit exchanges of work are articulated.

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تاریخ انتشار 2013