Os labirintos do trabalho informal na feira livre de Santana do Ipanema – Alagoas

Abstract

This research analyzes socioeconomic aspects of informal trade in the free fair of Santana do Ipanema, a city in the interior of Alagoas. We emphasize that informality has a broad concept, are linked to the various work activities, which are inserted in the labor market unofficially. It is observed that the diversification of this segment as a workspace has been increasingly precarious, credited as bitter fruits of structural changes in labor relations imposed unequally in contemporary times. In Brazil, informality has been presented as an alternative to combat the unemployment of urban and rural workers. To achieve the objective of the study, an experiment was used with 30 traders, composed of 20 men and 10 women. Because it is an ethical issue, the identification of these subjects will occur in afictitious way. The research was developed through the application of a questionnaire. It is identified that in the free fair, the informal merchants can be recognized as fairgoers, street vendors and street vendors. The typification that characterizes these workers will depend on the forms of marketing of products, insertion and working time in the informal market. When we look at the urban area, more formal jobs are linked to the private sector, we find that the increase in informality is the result of the lack of diversification of other formal work fronts in the municipality of Santana do Ipanema. On the other hand, the formal commercial activities have contributed to the support of local families, allowing the increase of income and the possibility of work for young people and adults who have difficulties to enter the formal market. In any case, we deduce that local informal commerce is also an image of the social, cultural, educational, and economic inequalities present in the Territory of Alagoas.