Do comércio de retalhos à Feira da Sulanca: uma inserção de migrantes em São Paulo / From trading cloth patches to the Sulanca´Fairs: how northeastern migrants were mobilized to work in this trade in the streets of Brás (São Paulo, Brazil)

AUTOR(ES)

Sueli de Castro Gomes

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2002

RESUMO

Trading cloth patches and textile remainders is carried out in the streets of the Brás neighborhood, an industrial and working class old district in São Paulo. It now concentrates several industries as well as wholesale and retail clothing stores meant for "sacoleiras" coming from all over Brazil. The patch trade originates in the interstices of old textile industries. Later it feeds on refuses of clothing industries that daily supply tons of remainders and patches to be traded by the "retalheiros". These patches and refuses are partly bought both by sewing women in greater São Paulo and by "sacoleiras". Most goods are sent to Santa Cruz do Capibaribe, in the hinterlands of Pernambuco State, which is a "sulanca" manufacturing pole. It merely consists of poorer quality clothing, mostly consumed by a lower income population. The lower income northeastern citizen becomes a buyer of fabric refuses from the Southern Center. The patch and remainder trade is mostly controlled by northeastern migrants, who form a net of people and merchandise based on this activity. Hence, this dissertation aimed at studying how these migrants were mobilized to work in this trade in the streets of Brás. In order to understand this process, the work also investigated the changes undergone by the district, from the Italian to the northeastern Brazilian occupation on the area. Once the connection among this and other areas was identified by the people/goods net evolution the patch-goods circulation was followed to one of its ends, namely the "sulanca" fairs in Pernambuco. Among the manifold questions raised by this research, attention should be drawn to the social nets as a mobilizing means of the free-lance migrant, who trades patches that contributes to capital increase

ASSUNTO(S)

brás; feiras da sulanca; migração; nordestinos; redes sociais; santa cruz do capibaribe; trabalho au brás; free lance work; migration; northeastern migrants; santa cruz do capibaribe; social nets; sul

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