Global peddlers: new proletarians of capital accumulation

• Grant number: 12/50483-5
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants - Publications - Books published in Brazil
• Start date: September 01, 2012
• End date: August 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology
• Principal Investigator: Angela Maria Carneiro Araújo
• Grantee: Angela Maria Carneiro Araújo
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This thesis deals with street venders that offer technological products (digital cameras, games, flash drivers etc.) in camelódromo of the Uruguayana in Rio de Janeiro. It was intended to answer the following question: Is the peddler of a differentiated form of technology for informal street work, which is the predominant business (profit), business (the capital) and not the employee (linked to survival), which is evident separation between capital (owners of the means and money) and work (labor contractor)? This line will be activities that now serve as the veins of capital expansion? Our aim of this research: to explore the new forms of differentiation in this street work in the current Brazilian society, understand what is this new (re) configuration of the street. This phenomenon reflects a kind of activity that suffers direct interference of the formal world, reshaping itself and assuming business features. For this research, 42 questionnaires were applied for these vendors. (AU)