Occupational structure and poverty in the metropolitan area of São Paulo, 1991-2010

Author(s)

Ian Prates Cordeiro Andrade

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2013-09-09

Examining board members

Nadya Araujo Guimaraes; Adalberto Moreira Cardoso; Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques

• Advisor: Nadya Araujo Guimaraes

Abstract

In Brazil, poverty has been interpreted, in most cases, from its relations with the labor market, the tight scope of social protection and the process of the expansion of the paid labor force. In the other hand, the studies about occupational structure dont use to embrace poverty as a phenomenon to be analyzed. Usually, poverty is seemed as a residue of the social stratification dynamics. This research aims to show how we can incorporate the occupational structure and its relationship with the economic changes and social protection, to analyze poverty. We use the Metropolitan Area of São Paulo between the years of 1991 and 2010 as a case study; based on census data we analyze how different patterns of occupational structure in these two decades constrained the dynamics of poverty. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 11/04923-0 - Social networks and labour market: a case study with (former) Bolsa Familia Program beneficiaries
• Grantee: Ian Prates Cordeiro Andrade
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master