Informal vendors and vulnerable city dwellers have long held important roles in Mexico City. Although being very much integral parts of the area’s rich culture, community and urban fabric, their place and right to the city remains precarious as they are forced to face much uncertainty. With growing gentrification in the central areas, the city turns more exclusive; unsustainable and inaccessible for the majority of the population. Many long-term residents are forcefully evicted and displaced to the periphery or the streets as housing prices rise. Vendors encounter a similar fate as their occupation is a target for much disapproval. Not fitting some individuals and decision makers’ vision of the streetscape, consideration for vendors is neglected and their livelihood is continually threatened. The uncertainty endured by these groups comes as a result of the deprivation of their rights to the stability and security of adequate housing, the right to work and to protection against unemployment, as well as their right to the city. My aim was to create a space where these rights can be repossessed, where vendors and vulnerable dwellers can claim a place and voice in the city. To recognise their struggles and trigger the idea of an accommodating and inclusive cityscape. I have envisioned this place to be in Colonia Juarez, a central neighbourhood currently experiencing a large transformation.

This study focused on the impact of vegetable sales on household income of hawkers in the Limpopo province. A stratified sampling technique was used. The population of hawkers was selected from the five district municipalities of the province. Three major towns from each district were randomly selected for 366 questionnaire administration. Multiple regression analysis (linear, semi-log and double-log) was used to determine the impact of vegetable sales on the household income of hawkers. The outcome of the study revealed that, nine independent variables had a significant impact on the vegetable sales of hawkers when the linear regression model was applied. On application of the semi-log regression, 11 independent variables had a significant impact on the vegetable sales. Ten independent variables had a significant impact on vegetable sales when considering the double-log regression. The cross tabulation of total sales according to districts showed that an average of 1.6 respondents earned less than R200 which is close to, but lower than R174 which is the poverty line measure in South Africa. The study showed the degree of significance of different variables that have an impact on hawkers’ vegetable sales. Vegetable hawkers generate enough income from their sales to live above the poverty line. The recommendation was that the local municipalities should build new markets and improve the infrastructure of existing markets, and also provide proper sanitation and clean water to avoid unhygienic situations in hawkers’ markets. / Agriculture and  Animal Health / M. Sc. (Agriculture)

O comércio de alimentos prontos para o consumo por vendedores ambulantes pode se constituir num alto risco para a saúde dos consumidores, visto que as pessoas envolvidas nesta atividade geralmente não têm preparo para a manipulação correta de alimentos. Neste trabalho foram investigadas as condições de preparo e a qualidade higiênico-sanitária de lanches (cachorro-quente) comercializados por vendedores ambulantes de Limeira-SP. Foram colhidas 5 amostras de 10 estabelecimentos centrais cadastrados na Vigilância Sanitária, coletadas em dias diferentes. Nos cachorros-quentes foram realizadas contagens de Staphylococcus coagulase positiva, Coliformes totais, Coliformes a 45°C, Clostridium sulfito-redutor, Bacillus cereus e investigada a presença de Salmonella spp. Entre as 50 amostras de cachorros-quentes analisadas, 34% estavam fora do padrão para Staphylococcus coagulase positiva. Em nenhuma amostra foi detectada a presença de Salmonella spp. e de Clostridium sulfitoredutor. As contagens de Coliformes totais, Coliformes a 45°C e Bacillus cereus estavam dentro dos valores permitidos. Os resultados obtidos através de uma Ficha de Inspeção de Estabelecimento não foram muito satisfatórios, o que pode ter contribuído para a presença de Staphylococcus coagulase positiva em números acima dos tolerados em aproximadamente 1/3 das amostras analisadas, bem como para a presença de Coliformes fecais. Recomenda-se regulamentar a atividade de ambulantes e investir em educação e melhoria da infra-estrutura para se evitar ou minimizar riscos de toxinfecções alimentares através do consumo de alimentos comercializados em vias públicas. / The commercialization of ready-made food by street vendors can constitute a high risk to consumer?s health, as the people involved in this kind of activity, generally, have no training in correct food handling. In this paper, preparation conditions and sanitaryhygienic quality of sandwiches (hot dogs) sold by street vendors in Limeira/SP were analyzed. Five samples were taken from 10 vending carts registered at Sanitary Vigilance in the central area of the town and they were collected in different days. Counts were made on hot dog samples for Staphylococcus coagulase positive, total Coliforms, Coliforms at 45ºC, Clostridium sulfite reducers, Bacillus cereus, and it was analyzed the presence of Salmonella spp. From the 50 samples of hot dogs tested, 34% did not reach the standard for Staphylococcus coagulase positive. In none of the samples was detected the presence of Salmonella spp. and Clostridium sulfite reducers. The counts on total Coliforms, Coliforms at 45ºC and Bacillus cereus were within permitted values. The results obtained through the Inspection Form were not very satisfactory, which could have contributed to the high percentage of contaminated samples with Staphylococcus coagulase positive in numbers above of the tolerated ones showed in approximately 1/3 of the analyzed samples, besides the presence of fecal Coliforms. It is recommended to regulate the street food vending activities, invest in training and improve infrastructure to avoid or minimize risks of alimentary toxinfection in the commercialized food in public streets.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-11-14T11:12:21Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Rodrigo Dionisi Capelli.pdf: 1121890 bytes, checksum: dd25318584e115f6e0bea1e6178d9221 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-14T11:12:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rodrigo Dionisi Capelli.pdf: 1121890 bytes, checksum: dd25318584e115f6e0bea1e6178d9221 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-10-26 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The present dissertation aims to analyze the commerce situation in the wagons of the train compositions crossing the West Zone of São Paulo Metropolitan Region, foccusing on Line 8 (Diamond), which is a part of CPTM (Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos) structure. Considering that, a historical contextualization of the phenomenon (informal work) in which my object is inserted was developed. The analysis of the literature addressing the subject as to its concepts, as well as the field observation of the commerce inside the compositions in different days and times, substantiate this study to faithfully de-scribe the informal work carried out, which despite the illegality, represents the sub-sistence of those individuals. The relation of those illegal activities and the society in a general perspective was approached, based on the field observations and on the interviews of a selected group of workers. The data collected underlie the description and analysis of the set of relations concerned as the objective aimed to this dissertation / Esta presente dissertação tem como intenção primordial, a análise da situação que se encontra o comércio no interior dos vagões das composições que cruzam parte da porção oeste da Região Metropolitana de São Paulo através da linha 8 (Diamante) que faz parte da estrutura da Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos (CPTM). Para tanto, trabalhei a contextualização histórica do surgimento do fenômeno (Trabalho Informal) no qual meu objeto está inserido. A análise de obras que já conceituaram o fenômeno em conjunto com vários dias de observação do comércio no interior das composições, são o fundamento desse estudo que, espero, tenha conseguido descrever com fidedignidade o trabalho ali realizado que, apesar de ilegal, garante a subsistência daqueles que a praticam. Temos aqui, uma visão de como essas atividades ilegais se relacionam com a sociedade mais ampla. Através das observações de um trabalho de campo e de uma entrevista aplicada a um grupo desses trabalhadores, esta dissertação intentou em descrever e analisar o conjunto dessas relações

Thesis (MTech. degree in Agriculture)--Tshwane University of Technology, 2011. / Using the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework as a guide, livelihoods of street traders involved in the purchase and retail of fresh produce from farmers at the Dzindi smallholder irrigation scheme were documented, analysed and assessed.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:46:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JoilmaDO.pdf: 1497670 bytes, checksum: 6afa777694c5f707addc8aed7c410256 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-12-28 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / This study aid to understand the work conditions of street vendors located on the sidewalks of two malls in Brazil Northeast Natal / RN - Both malls Natal Shopping and Via Direta, to analyze their inclusion in the informal economy and to study the supposed autonomy provided by work as self-employment in its both aspects economic and social analyzing the importance on the condition of "masters of their own business" has for the street vendors, as an alternative to not submission to the figure of the boss, that represents the exploitation of one class over another. The theoretical and methodological aspects that support this study was aimed in discussion on the restructuring of production, considering its effects on the world of work, pointing to unemployment as one of the potencies element of excluded processes that exciting workers to engage in the informal market. Informality is presented as a survival strategy and as integrating part of the reproduction of capital. This research was conducted under a critical perspective, whish has been utilized quantitative and qualitative analyses. The results of this study format questions that provided during the research process the socio-economic characterization of workers, main cause of this study, and how street vendors expres their status of workers as self-employed for their work, and the perception that they have on their form of inclusion in the informal market. / O presente estudo objetiva apreender as condi??es de trabalho dos vendedores ambulantes situados nas cal?adas de dois shoppings de Natal/RN Natal Shopping e Via Direta, analisar a sua inser??o na informalidade e estudar o alcance da suposta autonomia proporcionada pelo trabalho por conta pr?pria, em seus aspectos econ?micos e sociais analisando a import?ncia que a condi??o de donos de seus pr?prios neg?cios tem para os camel?s, como alternativa ? n?o submiss?o ? figura do patr?o, que representa a explora??o de uma classe sobre a outra. Os aspectos te?ricometodol?gicos que d?o suporte a este estudo se pautaram na discuss?o sobre a reestrutura??o produtiva, considerando seus efeitos para o mundo do trabalho, apontando o desemprego como um dos elementos potenciadores dos processos excludentes que instigam os trabalhadores a se inserirem no mercado informal. A informalidade apresenta-se como estrat?gia de sobreviv?ncia e como parte integrante da reprodu??o do capital. Esta pesquisa foi realizada sob uma perspectiva cr?tica, tendo sido utilizadas abordagens quanti-qualitativas. Os resultados desse estudo formatam indaga??es que proporcionaram ao longo do processo de pesquisa a caracteriza??o s?cio-econ?mico dos trabalhadores, sujeitos deste estudo, e de como os vendedores expressam a sua condi??o de trabalhadores por conta pr?pria, e a percep??o que os mesmos possuem sobre sua forma de inser??o no mercado informal.

This study focused on the impact of vegetable sales on household income of hawkers in the Limpopo province. A stratified sampling technique was used. The population of hawkers was selected from the five district municipalities of the province. Three major towns from each district were randomly selected for 366 questionnaire administration. Multiple regression analysis (linear, semi-log and double-log) was used to determine the impact of vegetable sales on the household income of hawkers. The outcome of the study revealed that, nine independent variables had a significant impact on the vegetable sales of hawkers when the linear regression model was applied. On application of the semi-log regression, 11 independent variables had a significant impact on the vegetable sales. Ten independent variables had a significant impact on vegetable sales when considering the double-log regression. The cross tabulation of total sales according to districts showed that an average of 1.6 respondents earned less than R200 which is close to, but lower than R174 which is the poverty line measure in South Africa. The study showed the degree of significance of different variables that have an impact on hawkers’ vegetable sales. Vegetable hawkers generate enough income from their sales to live above the poverty line. The recommendation was that the local municipalities should build new markets and improve the infrastructure of existing markets, and also provide proper sanitation and clean water to avoid unhygienic situations in hawkers’ markets. / Agriculture and  Animal Health / M. Sc. (Agriculture)

Orientador: Ricardo Luis Coltro Antunes / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / O exemplar do AEL pertence a Coleção CPDS / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-07T02:30:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Duraes_BrunoJoseRodrigues_M.pdf: 705344 bytes, checksum: dc3185a640ee253ef90189d7c239f2e8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: O presente estudo tem como objetivo central evidenciar e problematizar as condições precárias de trabalho dos trabalhadores de rua da cidade de Salvador em dois contextos díspares, um do final do século XIX (no contexto da abolição da escravidão) e o outro da atualidade (século XXI), evidenciando importantes elementos de similitudes, bem como, de incongruências. O problema que norteia a investigação proposta divide-se em dois. Pelo lado do século XIX ensejou-se responder a seguinte indagação: As formas de trabalho de rua de Salvador do final do século XIX representaram uma forma de trabalho avançada em relação a forma de trabalho predominante à época, a escrava? Por outro lado, referente às formas de trabalho de rua da atualidade, indagou-se: Serão estas formas de trabalho de rua atuais atrasadas em relação às formas de trabalho assalariado/formal da moderna produção capitalista, representando assim um retrocesso?Para responder a estas questões nos valemos do recurso da historiografia para o século XIX, compondo o cenário de vida e de trabalho das ruas da cidade de Salvador de finais deste século, utilizando de documentos e recortes de jornais históricos. Outrossim, para a atualidade usamos de uma pesquisa qualitativa com 191 trabalhadores de rua espalhados em diversos pontos da cidade de Salvador, e também de notícias em jornais. Estas bases permitiram compor duas paisagens de uma mesma cidade, em situações diferenciadas, mas que retratam formas similares de trabalho, principalmente, por estarem todas localizadas nas ruas da capital baiana. No século XIX os/as trabalhadores/as de rua eram denominadas de ganhadores/ganhadeiras e se encontravam ordenados/as em cantos delimitados na cidade. Hoje, são conhecidos/as como camelôs, vendedores/as ambulantes, informais e estão situados em todos os cantos da cidade, ainda com regulamentações, perseguições e ordenações, e uma máxima vem a tona, a saber, a busca frenética e incansável pela sobrevivência / Abstract: This present study has the main objective of evidence and discuss the precarious labour conditions of street workers on the city of Salvador in two different contexts, one is the end of the XIXth century (in the context of slavery abolition) and other is the present time (XXIth century), evidencing important elements of similarities, as well as, the incongruence. The problem that guides this inquiry is divided in two pieces. On the XIXth century, it was tried to answer the following investigation: the forms of street labour on Salvador's streets at the end of XIXth century had represented an advanced form of labour in comparison with the predominant form of labour at that time, the slave labour? On the other hand, referring to the forms of street labour at the present time, it was inquired: Have these current forms of street labour been less developed in comparison with the forms of formal wage-earning labour on the modern capitalist production, therefore, it represents a retrocession? To answer these questions, it was necessary the use of XIXth century historiography, to compose the scene of everyday life and work on the streets of Salvador at the end of this century, using documents and clippings of historical periodicals. So, on present time, we use a qualitative research with 191 street workers in diverse locations around the city of Salvador, and also clippings of actual periodicals. These bases had allowed composing two pictures of the same city, in differentiated situations, portraying similar forms of labour, all of it located on Salvador¿s streets. In XIXth century, the street workers were called of earners and they were found in delimited corners around the city. Today, they are knowed as ambulants, informal peddlers and sellers, and they are situated in all the corners around the city, still constrained by regulations, persecutions and ordinances, and a principle comes up: the frantic and untiring struggle for survival / Mestrado / Mestre em Sociologia

Informal trade in Feira de Santana, specially the one located on the streets downtown, has gone through significant changes from the beginning of the organization of the city with the street market and the cattle fair up to the city’s present organization with predominant industrialized products. The situation indicates that processes of capital accumulation have been included in the activity. The organization and relevance of such activity is the reflex of the power it possesses when it comes to attracting a great flow of people, mostly from the city’s micro region, and of the capacity of promoting the circulation of capital, characterizing the commercial center as a venue of great value for any kind of informal trade, including street market. Commerce is the strength of Feira de Santana’s economy. In this perspective, informal trade has become the focus of this study, considering its relevance. Continuity and changes in street trade in Feira de Santana are local result of global situation. Changes in the international scenario stablished over a short period of time will reset nations and cause significant economic and political changes in the contemporary world. The practice of street trade is a well-known model which gained new patterns if we consider what is commercialized presently since the street market is responsible, mostly, for commercializing agricultural or manufactured products. At the present organization, industrial production, mostly technological, is dominant in this kind of commerce. It is the result of a consolidating historic process, governmental actions, labor laws, as well as changes in production and labor relations at global level with local repercussions which resulted in a process of production restructuration. Furthermore, many citizens make a living out of this activity and many industries increase their capital by selling part of their production to this segment of commerce. Among continuity and changes, it is noticed that the street trade studied follows the logic and model of the society for which it is destined. In this context, trade conducted by street vendors has reflected clients’ needs and interests. The conclusion of this research shows that informal trade in Feira de Santana presents great heterogeneity, complexity and relevance for society and economy. Therefore, continuity and changes in the activity allow several further studies. / O comércio informal em Feira de Santana, particularmente o que ocorre nas ruas da cidade, passou por significativas transformações no intervalo que marca a origem do município e da cidade com a feira livre e a feira de gado bovino até a atual organização. Esta situação é um indicativo de que houveram inclusões de processos de acumulação de capital. Sua organização e relevância é reflexo do poder que possui em atrair um elevado fluxo de pessoas, em especial, de sua microrregião, e da capacidade em promover a circulação de capital, caracterizando o centro comercial como local de maior valor para todo tipo de comércio informal, incluindo o comércio de rua. É no comércio onde se encontra a força da economia de Feira de Santana, nesta perspectiva, determinou-se o comércio informal como objeto desse estudo, considerando sua relevância. Como tese foi estabelecido: A centralidade urbana em Feira de Santana se mantém perante o fortalecimento do circuito inferior da economia representado pelo comércio de rua realizado por ambulantes e camelôs. As permanências e resistências no comércio de rua em Feira de Santana também são repercussões locais de situações globais. O objetivo geral busca analisar o comércio informal em Feira de Santana, sua evolução e transformação reafirmando a centralidade associada à dinâmica urbana e popularização do consumo. As informações indispensáveis para a realização desta pesquisa foram organizadas a partir de fontes diversas. Os documentos governamentais foram consultados. Os dados estatísticos indicativos à população, os censos demográficos e informações sobre o comércio foram coletados no site do Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística. Ainda foi realizada uma pesquisa de campo com a intenção de identificar o perfil dos ambulantes e camelôs, além dos consumidores. Esta forneceu dados para a elaboração e discussão dos resultados apresentados no formato de texto, gráficos figuras, tabelas e mapas temáticos. Entre as permanências e mudanças evidenciadas percebe-se que o comércio de rua estudado segue a lógica e modelo de sociedade para o qual se destina. Nesse sentido, o comércio realizado por ambulantes e camelôs vem refletindo interesses e necessidades da clientela. O espaço público representado pelas ruas e avenidas do centro comercial da cidade de Feira de Santana confirma-se enquanto espaço para o comércio de rua realizado por ambulantes e camelôs. A tradição histórica da feira livre, o desemprego promovido pelas sucessivas reestruturações produtivas, a articulação local, regional e nacional para a realização da atividade comercial contribui para a consolidação do comércio formal e também do informal. Os logradouros estudados apresentam graves problemas de infraestrutura e ordenamento territorial que se corrigidos pelo poder público, não inviabilizam sua realização, principalmente por ser referência em escala regional. / São Cristóvão, SE

O comércio de alimentos prontos para o consumo por vendedores ambulantes pode se constituir num alto risco para a saúde dos consumidores, visto que as pessoas envolvidas nesta atividade geralmente não têm preparo para a manipulação correta de alimentos. Neste trabalho foram investigadas as condições de preparo e a qualidade higiênico-sanitária de lanches (cachorro-quente) comercializados por vendedores ambulantes de Limeira-SP. Foram colhidas 5 amostras de 10 estabelecimentos centrais cadastrados na Vigilância Sanitária, coletadas em dias diferentes. Nos cachorros-quentes foram realizadas contagens de Staphylococcus coagulase positiva, Coliformes totais, Coliformes a 45°C, Clostridium sulfito-redutor, Bacillus cereus e investigada a presença de Salmonella spp. Entre as 50 amostras de cachorros-quentes analisadas, 34% estavam fora do padrão para Staphylococcus coagulase positiva. Em nenhuma amostra foi detectada a presença de Salmonella spp. e de Clostridium sulfitoredutor. As contagens de Coliformes totais, Coliformes a 45°C e Bacillus cereus estavam dentro dos valores permitidos. Os resultados obtidos através de uma Ficha de Inspeção de Estabelecimento não foram muito satisfatórios, o que pode ter contribuído para a presença de Staphylococcus coagulase positiva em números acima dos tolerados em aproximadamente 1/3 das amostras analisadas, bem como para a presença de Coliformes fecais. Recomenda-se regulamentar a atividade de ambulantes e investir em educação e melhoria da infra-estrutura para se evitar ou minimizar riscos de toxinfecções alimentares através do consumo de alimentos comercializados em vias públicas. / The commercialization of ready-made food by street vendors can constitute a high risk to consumer?s health, as the people involved in this kind of activity, generally, have no training in correct food handling. In this paper, preparation conditions and sanitaryhygienic quality of sandwiches (hot dogs) sold by street vendors in Limeira/SP were analyzed. Five samples were taken from 10 vending carts registered at Sanitary Vigilance in the central area of the town and they were collected in different days. Counts were made on hot dog samples for Staphylococcus coagulase positive, total Coliforms, Coliforms at 45ºC, Clostridium sulfite reducers, Bacillus cereus, and it was analyzed the presence of Salmonella spp. From the 50 samples of hot dogs tested, 34% did not reach the standard for Staphylococcus coagulase positive. In none of the samples was detected the presence of Salmonella spp. and Clostridium sulfite reducers. The counts on total Coliforms, Coliforms at 45ºC and Bacillus cereus were within permitted values. The results obtained through the Inspection Form were not very satisfactory, which could have contributed to the high percentage of contaminated samples with Staphylococcus coagulase positive in numbers above of the tolerated ones showed in approximately 1/3 of the analyzed samples, besides the presence of fecal Coliforms. It is recommended to regulate the street food vending activities, invest in training and improve infrastructure to avoid or minimize risks of alimentary toxinfection in the commercialized food in public streets.