Travessia do Rio Negro: informalidade e precarização do trabalho no porto do São Raimundo e Cacau Pirêra, Manaus - AM

Abstract

The world of work in the city of Manaus started and goes through many changes that are detected mainly by increasing the number of workers who fall within the informal market daily, occupying spaces in the city as an area of work. Among these spacesis the port of São Raimundo, included among the 57 ports along the waterfront of Manaus, which extends from the mouth of the river to the mouth of Tarumã Puraquequara River, an area of 43 km, located on the left bank Negro River in the west of the city of Manaus, and that makes the crossing to the port of Cacau District Pirêra. These ports are manifestations of multiple places of work. Have a significant number of men and women who use the space port, the ferries and boats for their livelihoods. This dissertation deals with the precarious and informal subject oftransporting people and goods sold in an intense shuttle between the port and the port of São Raimundo Cacau Pirêra. Our goal is to characterize the daily work ofstreet vendors and taxi drivers of sea-freight, operating in informality, precariousness and Girded by the neglect of the public.