Inaug.-diss.--Strassburg.

abstract / toc / Geography and Geology / Master / Master of Philosophy

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-277).

Submitted by Igor Matos (igoryure.rm@gmail.com) on 2017-01-19T12:54:45Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2015_Christiany Regina Fonseca.pdf: 5827077 bytes, checksum: 61c335c50c2c17ab5283020cb2511a77 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Jordan (jordanbiblio@gmail.com) on 2017-01-19T15:12:56Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2015_Christiany Regina Fonseca.pdf: 5827077 bytes, checksum: 61c335c50c2c17ab5283020cb2511a77 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-01-19T15:12:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2015_Christiany Regina Fonseca.pdf: 5827077 bytes, checksum: 61c335c50c2c17ab5283020cb2511a77 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-20 / Este trabalho tem por objetivo discutir o papel dos camelôs e sua relação com o trabalho e a educação na perspectiva da experiência e da produção de saberes. Busca compreender a “sobrevivência” da economia popular diante da ordem do capital, que, alicerçado na reestruturação produtiva, tem tornado cada vez mais precarizado o trabalho assalariado. Bem por isso, vem obrigando muitos trabalhadores a buscar alternativas para sobreviver e assegurar a produção material e imaterial da vida. O referencial teórico-metodológico se apoia na literatura nacional no atinente a estes temas: Trabalho, Educação, Economia Popular, Reestruturação Produtiva, Experiência e Produção de Saberes. Trata-se de pesquisa qualitativa, lançando mão de revisão bibliográfica, pesquisa de campo por meio de observação participante e entrevistas, que constituíram os métodos e as principais técnicas utilizadas. Entende-se que os processos educativos também constituem elemento da cultura do trabalho, mediando as condições objetivas e subjetivas do processo produtivo. A dinâmica do trabalho se revela fonte de saberes adquiridos e produzidos no próprio processo de trabalho, no qual os camelôs e os ambulantes estão inseridos nesta perspectiva. Para atingir o cerne da pesquisa, fez-se necessário estudar as redes de relação entre o modus operandi dos camelôs, associado ao trabalho e à educação. A apreensão dessas dimensões é essencial para a análise das estratégias desenvolvidas por eles, agregadas ao conhecimento de elementos que permitem a compreensão da organização social desse grupo. Pretende-se também, com este estudo, contribuir para o debate sobre a questão da economia popular, do qual a identificação deste tipo de atividade seria de suma importância para melhor compreensão de como a interface trabalho e educação aí ocorre, fundada na convicção de que, por meio do trabalho, o homem constrói saberes, e assim, também se forma e se constrói. / This paper aims at discussing about the vendors and their relationship with work and education from the perspective of experience and knowledge production, trying to understand the "survival" of the Popular Economy opposite order of that capital from the productive restructuring has become increasingly precarious wage labor and is forcing many workers to find alternatives to survive and ensure material production and immaterial life. The theoretical and methodological framework relies on the national literature on the topics: Work, Education, Popular Economics, Productive Restructuring, Experience and Knowledge Production. It is a qualitative research, literature review, fieldwork through participant observation and interviews were the main methods and techniques being used. It is understood that the pedagogical processes also constitute itself as an element of the culture of work, mediating the objective and subjective conditions of the production process, and the dynamics of labor supply of knowledge acquired and produced the work process itself, in which the vendors and vendors are included in this perspective. To achieve the research objective, it was necessary to study the networks of relationships between "modes operandi" of peddlers, work and education. The seizure of these dimensions is essential for analyzing the strategies developed by them, in addition to knowledge of elements that allow the understanding of the social organization of the group. It is also intended through this study contribute to the debate on the issue of welfare, which the identification of this type of activity would be of paramount importance for a better understanding of how the interface work and education happen at this from the understanding that by through work man builds knowledge and so it also is formed and builds.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e TecnolÃgico / Este estudo analisa a participaÃÃo dos vendedores itinerantes, sobretudo de artigos religiosos, em trÃs centros de romarias do Estado do CearÃ: o de Nossa Senhora da SaÃde, no Distrito de Olho d‟ Ãgua da Bica, o de padre CÃcero, em Juazeiro do Norte, e o de SÃo Francisco, em CanindÃ, dada a constÃncia e a circularidade com que eles se deslocam para esses lugares, em obediÃncia ao calendÃrio dos eventos religiosos. A partir da pesquisa de campo, procura-se compreender as relaÃÃes que se estabelecem entre esses atores, identificando, com base nas suas narrativas, os âtiposâ de vendedor, as experiÃncias adquiridas nas viagens e o comÃrcio da devoÃÃo. Busca-se ainda analisar as romarias, tomando como referÃncia o tempo do trabalho no espaÃo da festa e os sentidos que os vendedores lhe conferem. / This work analysis the participation of peddlers, above all of religious products, at three pilgrimages places of Cearà State: Our Lady of Health, at Olho d‟Ãgua da Bica district, Father CÃcero, at Juazeiro do Norte, and Saint Francis, at CanindÃ, observing the constancy and the circulate movement of that workers among these places, following the religious dates. Beginning with the camp research we look for the understanding of the relations among these actors, identifying the âkindâ of peddlers, the travel experiences and the devotion business, based on their narratives. We also want to analyze the pilgrimages observing the work time at the festival and the meanings that peddlers gave it.

A number of issues in the thesis need to be clarified and will be discussed individually below. The term Third World, which is used in the thesis to describe developing countries in a disadvantageous economic position in relation to developed countries, is unsatisfactory. It is a collective term which combines countries with dissimilar cultures, ideologies and future prospects into one category (De Souza & Porter, 1974). Debate continues whether South Africa can be classified as a First or Third World country (Fair, 1982). Rogerson & Beavon (1980) indicate that South Africa can be described as dichotomous because it reflects characteristics of both First and Third World countries. In comparison De Souza & Porter (1974,1) include South Africa among the Third World countries, because four-fifths of the people have an income that is six times less than the income of the other fifth, and they live in a condition of underdevelopment. Conditions in Fingo Village resemble those described by De Souza & Porter (1974) and hence the results of the Fingo Village survey are compared with similar studies, elsewhere in the Third World. However, it would be naive to assume that Fingo Village is unaffected by development within the core regions of South Africa, which in many instances epitomize the First World. The term informal sector, used throughout the thesis, is also unsatisfactory, and debate continues as theorists attempt to find a more appropriate term. Santos (1979) indicates that the term informal sector is contentious, by placing it in single quotation marks. From the literature survey it emerged that the majority of authors did not follow Santos' convention (1979) and thus it seemed acceptable to use the term, informal sector, without placing it in single quotation marks. Chapter Two deals in-depth with the problem of defining the informal sector, and a working definition for the Fingo Village survey is presented in section 2.4.1. The informal sector embraces a wide diversity of economic activities. Due to the limited time and funds available, it was decided to isolate one aspect of this sector, namely, hawking. Sections 2.3 and 2.7 of Chapter Two indicate that hawking is an exemplary informal sector activity. All the different hawking types could not be given close attention and therefore, for practical purposes, it was decided to select one facet of hawking, namely, fruit and vegetable hawkers. Mobile fruit and vegetable hawkers were excluded from the study as it was impossible, during the mapping survey, to isolate a specific hawking site for each mobile hawker. Furthermore, a mobile hawker could easily be enumerated on more than one occasion, and hence a margin of error would automatically occur in the study. This was another reason for excluding mobile hawkers from the study and merely focusing upon static and semi-static fruit and vegetable hawkers. It is difficult to collect comprehensive quantitative data on informal sector activities (Preston-Whyte et al, 1984). The interviewer has to gain the confidence and trust of the subjects. The interviewer for the Fingo Village survey was a well known local personality and a man of some standing in the Black community. Daniel Sandi was the Secretary, of the Grahamstown Association (GRACA), which was reputed to have the support of the majority of the Black residents in Grahamstown until it was banned under the State of Emergency in July 1985. Daniel Sandi was also known for his contribution in literary circles as an epic poet. His previous experience conducting socio-economic surveys, as a researcher for the Border Council of Churches and as the Teba Research Assistant for the Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University, was also helpful. Sporadic unrest in the study area, from September 1984 and throughout 1985, prevented further fieldwork from being conducted in Fingo Village.

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A research report submitted to the Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, University of the Witwatersrand, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Management specialising in Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation Johannesburg, 2016 / The establishment and growth of informal traders in South Africa have been attributed with a considerable need and desire for these informal economies to achieve economic growth, create sustainable entrepreneurial opportunities, assist with employment opportunities, etc. A number of factors have an impact on how these informal traders can become competitive and formalised, and one of these enablers is the influence of ICT interventions by informal economies to improve business performance. The purpose of this research was to establish the perceived relationship between the influence of ICT usage by informal traders and the perceived impact on business performance. The intended objective was to assess whether the perception of ICT adoption by informal traders had a positive or negative business performance outcome. The research methodology adopted was a quantitative approach, which was guided by a positivist paradigm. The population targeted were informal traders in the Sandton region of Johannesburg, South Africa. A questionnaire was distributed to gather data. The influence of ICT and the perceived impact within informal traders in the Sandton region revealed some findings consistent with existing literature. It was the overall accepted perception that ICT adoption has a perceived positive impact on business performance, including but not limited to market share, products, and customer service, as measured in the research. A deeper analysis is required to understand why the respondents in the research overwhelmingly state that the influence of ICT adoption has a perceived positive impact on performance, market share, and product and customer service. / MT2016

This research project focused on understanding the narratives of women informal street traders in Warwick Junction, Durban. This is a diverse and vibrant trading community and the five women interviewed have been working in the area for many years. This means that these research participants offer a unique window in on the intersections between individual (psychological) realities and historical, sociopolitical and economic life. The project adopted a narrative approach, analyzing the ways in which 1) particular incident narratives (PINs) within each life narrative reflect key aspects of the life story and draw on narrative principles to convey this; 2) the ways in which narratives are interactively constructed between the researcher and participants in the interview situation; and 3) the relational construction of individual lives in networks of communities. The results highlighted the inherently interwoven nature of identity construction between individuals and the communities with which they associate. The overarching factors of poverty, gender and trauma were shown, in all three levels of analysis, as key elements that tied the women together through relationships of shared experiences. The stories that the women chose to share were strongly influenced by the presence and responses of the interviewer and the researcher and thus, the ways in which power, entrenched in history and culture, influenced the narratives became most evident. The ways in which the women connect and disconnect with relational others was shown to influence their sense of belonging within various communities, both real and imagined. This contributed to the women’s development of resilience and salient identities as cohesive communities were shown to be buffers against adversity and influencers in the construction of identity.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:30:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Isabela do Carmo Camargo.pdf: 3172447 bytes, checksum: fcd4fcda0cca0052c142dec91a039887 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-06-03 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / The present work searches evidence concerning the presence and the experiences lived by street peddlers in the city of São Paulo, from 1890 to 1910, a period in which there were significant transformations in the capital of the state of São Paulo Brazil. There was the ending of slavery, the beginning of the republican regime and an outstanding population growth, mainly due to immigration. It analyses how street peddlers lived within the city modernization, and the aspects concerning their participation in supplying staples, as well as their relationship with the new rules established by the city, such as the taxing and license permits, which would then legitimate their activity as street peddlers are highlighted. The relationship and the conflicts among street peddlers and other subjects, such as their costumers, competing traders and the taxing system are also analyzed. In such analysis, it is noticed that street peddlers can be perceived in a perspective which overcomes the concept of marginality because they remain in the city in an intense way, working in spite of, sometimes, being watched in despise / O presente trabalho busca perceber a presença e as experiências dos vendedores ambulantes, na cidade de São Paulo, entre 1890-1910, período de significativas transformações na capital paulista, como o fim da escravidão, a introdução do regime republicano e o crescimento populacional advindo principalmente da imigração. Analisa-se como os ambulantes conviveram com o processo de modernização da cidade, destacando-se os aspetos referentes à sua participação no abastecimento de gêneros de primeira necessidade; a sua relação com as novas normas estabelecidas pela prefeitura, como, por exemplo, a cobrança de impostos e de alvarás de licença, que legitimavam a atividade ambulante. Analisam-se também as relações e os conflitos entre os vendedores ambulantes e outros sujeitos, entre eles: os fregueses, os comerciantes concorrentes e o fisco. Percebe-se, nessa análise, que os vendedores ambulantes podem ser vistos em uma perspectiva que ultrapassa a ideia de marginalidade, pois permanecem na cidade, de forma intensa, com seu trabalho, mesmo que, algumas vezes, sejam observados com desprezo