The informal sector in natal space of public policies

• Autor(a) principal: Luz, Maria das Graças Figueiredo da
• Data de Publicação: 1991
• Outros Autores: Paiva, Maria das Graças de M. Venâncio, Bulhões, Paulo Ney Silva
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/8974
• topic: Informal sector of the economy; categories of informal workers; informal settlements; informal production units.; Sector informal de la economía; categorías de trabajadores informales; asentamientos informales; unidades de producción informales.; Setor informal da economia; categorias de trabalhadores informais; ocupações informais; unidades produtivas informais.

The study identifies forms of unconventional insertion into the labour market of Natal (RN). A research was conducted, involving eight districts selected under previously defined criteria, such as low income and the existence of favelas (slums). The available literature on the subject was reviewed, in an attempt to establish a definition of categories of workers; to reach this objective, the authors readapted a methodological scheme suggested by Lucio Kowarick. Accordingly to the specific features of the situation under analysis, it has been possible to identify autonomous workers and odd-jobbers (59%) intermittent workers (17,3%) and informal productive units (22%), the latter subdivided into arts of workmanship and home industrial arts, small established trade units and productive units for the rendering of services. As to the type of suitable policies to be implemented in the informal sector, and effort was made to alleviate the controversy on the subject thought the presentation of a few suggestions. Special prominence received the various modalities of informal productive units, an aspect which, due to the peculiarities of the northeastern economy, requires a more detailed study as atypical units that should get support from governmental agencies, among them the Cebrae (Centro Brasileiro de Apoio à Pequena e Média Empresa - Brazilian Center for Support of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise) itself.