Trabalho necessário e informal: o perfil das pessoas ocupadas no "Shopping Popular Terceirão" em João Pessoa - PB

Abstract

The main purpose of this monograph is to analyze the profile of persons occupied in activities located in the popular shopping Terceirão in the municipality of João Pessoa. The informal work is a phenomenon that has spread in all the cities as a result of the model of capitalist development which cannot keep all the people in the formal conditions of work. In spite of the contradiction between formal and informal learning, the activities disseminated in the dimension of informality contribute significantly to the generation of wealth and maintains a significant number of people employed and able to get income to meet their needs. The theoretical contributions on socioeconomic development and work served as the basis for the studies and discussions on the informal work, examining the concept and the conditions of its expansion. It was also necessary in the pursuit of secondary data in research institutions, as IBGE and the Ministry of Labor, to illustrate the general conditions of the labor market in Joao Pessoa and analyze the informal sector. In addition, we used the direct examination of field to investigate the perception of workers, merchants and the administration of the Popular Shopping on the conditions of labor, infrastructure, and in informal work in this area of commerce and services. To seize the job setup in Shopping Terceirão were taken into consideration variables like: education, age, marital status, gender, income, portfolio of work and contribution to social security. As the research has indicated, it is possible to highlight that part of the people who perform functions of workers or small traders in Shopping Terceirão are in precarious employment or informal, in view of the extensive work days, not contributing to social security, the non-existence of holidays and 13th salary, among other human rights work.