Trajetórias e desafios do trabalho informal de venda ambulante nas ruas de Luanda

• Autor(a) principal: Félix, Indira Lazarine Catoto Monteiro
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/24506
• topic: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL; Trabalho informal; Vendedores ambulantes - Luanda (Angola); Pobreza - Luanda (Angola); Casual labor; Peddlers - Luanda (Luanda, Angola); Poverty - Luanda (Luanda, Angola)

This study aims to analyze the trajectories and challenges of informal street selling work carried out by women and men on the streets of Luanda, capital of the Republic of Angola, a country located in the western part of the African continent. Specifically, this study intends to learn the experiences and reasons that lead them to persist in street work, despite the violent treatment they receive from public agents linked to the police and inspection. In addition, they suffer from the lack of effectiveness of social policies aimed at responding to their demands. This thesis was based on a qualitative approach, from the perspective of historical-dialectical materialism, whose theoretical support was elaborated through bibliographical and documentary research that later gave sustainability to the results obtained in the field research. After reading, there was a summary and record of the content, based on the central categories of the study: street work, trajectory, poverty and social policy. The field research focused on semi-structured interviews with eight subjects (four women and four men), who are informal street vendors in Luanda. A script was created that served as a guide for data collection. Some questions arose in the course of the dialogue held with each of the participating subjects and provided the basis for the analysis. Another procedure adopted was direct observation, which also had a script of important aspects to be observed, as well as the field journal. During the work, ethical aspects of the research were respected, such as the authorization and prior consent of the participants, including the use of tape recorder and photographs during interviews, in addition to the adoption of fictitious names. Some research results reaffirmed that the occupational trajectories of the family members and the interviewed subjects are marked by the informal work of street vendors, due to the lack of alternatives for survival caused by the absence of public policies that address their rights. It was observed the presence of a threatening, corrupt and repressive State, through the action of its fiscal and police agents who, instead of offering social protection, aggravate the situation of social lack of protection of workers who roam the streets, expanding the uncertain boundaries between the informal, the illegal, the irregular and the illicit, as Telles observed (2010)