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THE RECONFIGURED PEDDLER: Your function for accumulation

This paper deals with street workers that offer technological products (cell, games, flash drivers etc.) in Camelódromo Feiraguai in Feira de Santana. 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)? 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, ie, 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. 151 questionnaires were applied to these vendors. It was found that is a style of work and business logic, but still within the framework of informal work.

Informality; Peddler of technology; Capitalism


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