Terra, trabalho e memória: o trabalho informal na cidade de Alagoinhas/BA nas narrativas dos(as) trabalhadores(as) feirantes

Abstract

The objective of this monography is to establish historical connections between land distribution and informal work in Alagoinhas/BA city, based on market workers narratives, data presentation and literature review on the theme, having in sight a high Gini index, which measures inequality in land distribution on a 0 to 1 scale, registered in 0,920 in the city in the year of 2017 by the research group Geografar from UFBA. The employed method consists of a content analysis of semi-directive interviews of seven market workers and the life histories of three of them. The theoretical assumptions of this work were the perceptions of the following authors: Quijano (2005), González (1979), Gomes (2019), Marini (1973) e Souza (2019). The main elements that compose the collective memory of the market workers are their relation with land, work at the market and black and mestizo identity. In this sense, overcoming social problems that relate with land and labor, such as land concentration and lack of social protection of the informal workers, as elements that are historically interconnected in Brazil, necessarily depends on overcoming racism as an ideology that guides state action and and that makes the historical denial of rights to these subjects persist.