Revista de Políticas Públicas (Jan 2008)

O TRABALHADOR INFORMAL NOS ÔNIBUS: uma das faces da questão urbana na Região Metropolitana de Belém/RMB

  • Christiane Pimentel e Silva,
  • João Paulo Gois Alves

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 2
pp. 75 – 82

Abstract

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The process of space occupation in the Brazilian ́s city of Belém metropolitan area occurred in unequal ways, following the different nature of the local production, segregating a great part of the population to the poorest or peripheral areas. The capitalist conditions of contemporaries ́ production have contributed for an increase of the informal work market, hat ends up submitting itself to the logic of the market. Considering the informal confusing city areas ́ occupation it was chosen to observe the ambulant workers in the buses, who occupy a flexible work environment.

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