Resumo:
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 is very present in brazilian society.
