Dinâmica socioespacial da produção de fogos de artifício em Santo Antonio de Jesus-BA : território fogueteiro

• Autor(a) principal: Tomasoni, Sônia Marise Rodrigues Pereira
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFS
• Texto Completo: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/5453
• topic: Geografia; Territorialidade humana; Santo Antonio de Jesus (BA).; Trabalho; Fogos de artifício; Território; Dinâmica socioespacial; Territory; Sociospatial dynamics; Fireworks; Labour world; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::GEOGRAFIA

This thesis focuses on the social and spatial dynamics of fireworks production, carried out mostly by women, at Santo Antonio de Jesus-BA, city located on Territory of Recôncavo, beside the BR-101 road, 190km far from Salvador, the State Capital. The city emerges as a hub due to trading and infrastructure in services. Starting on an investigation about the territories occupied by this production, it was possible contextualize the female workers on the pyrotechnic labor process, as well as observing their life style, tensions, nature and work relations built during the hoarding of their labor. The theoretical discussion seized the territory as a reference for reality comprehension, as well as the relations on territory with public policies and the labor world. The timescale from 1998 until 2015, is justified because it seeks to explain the configuration of the pyrotechnic production, since the tragedy occurred on December 11th of 1998. This tragedy unveiled Santo Antonio de Jesus the title of second largest fireworks producer in Brazil, and therefore a pyrotechnic hub. The qualitative approach in line with the quantitative data analysis, allowed to explain the relations built in the fireworks territory and the object studied. During this work development, based on empirics, the following research tools were used: observation in loco, testimonies, document analysis, photographical registries, questionnaires and interviews. The information were treated on a way that data reflects the reality. From the data, a fireworks territory analysis was obtained, finding that the women work is amateur, home maid and hazardous, incorporating all the family using elderly and child labor. This production takes place in an informal and clandestine market. The public policies implemented in order to solve this problem were unsuccessful, and the fireworks production today spread to other cities, maintains Santo Antonio de Jesus the main production territory, mostly at Irmã Dulce and São Paulo Neighborhoods. Although the production is done in a precarious way, it contributes for the families‘ survival and the organization of city spaces, with formation of fireworks territory controlled by local traders.