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Helicopter pilots of São Paulo: the wages between fog and 'open sky'

The performance of a highly skilled occupation is not incompatible with flexibility, as evidenced by the experience of helicopter pilots in São Paulo. This profession, proof of the inclusion of this metropolis in the globalization process, illustrates the plurality of status and wages for the sector of service class, part of the new middle class.

Helicopter pilots; Hybridization; Profession; Status; Service class; São Paulo; Globalization


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