A realidade fora da arena: a dinâmica (in) sustentável do trabalho informal no festival folclórico de Parintins – Amazonas

Abstract

The Parintins Folklore Festival is known worldwide because of the creativity and the dynamics of party that happens every year on the last weekend of June. In recent years the party has taken a more marketing than actually cultural, losing some of its features. The media growth Festival attracted thousands of tourists, which drove a significant increase in the Informal Labor, which is exercised both by the inhabitants of the island and by workers from other locations. The realization of this event entails problems for the city of Parintins, among them the increasing violence, prostitution and uncontrollable production of solid waste, considered one of the main environmental impacts caused by serious party. How is organized the Informal Work has contributed to these impacts, since the environmental criteria are not considered a priority at the time of division of the workspaces. Against this background, this study aims to assess the social and environmental impacts of the organization of informal work during the Folk Festival in the city of Parintins, focusing on analysis of the dimensions of environmental sustainability. The study was motivated from living in the city and closer to the associations of informal workers who work at the Folk Festival. Thus, the research aimed to: 1) identify the organization of informal work by mapping forms of work; 2) characterize the effects of informality in the conditions of life and work of informal workers; 3) investigate the actions of government that have been developed to mitigate the impacts to the environment; and 4) identify alternatives for the sustainability of Labor in Parintins context. For this purpose, the methodology used came from a qualitative and quantitative approach, where they were interviewed by means of forms with open and closed questions, informal workers registered at the city hall, who received personalized Orla in the city barracks. Aiming to expand the qualitative approach was also conducted a focus group with the workers of the Association of Street Vendors of Parintins, aiming to meet the peculiarity of the socio-political organizations of the municipality. As key sources of information were interviewed using semi-structured interview, the representatives of the Municipal Lands, Storage and Records and the Municipal Environment. The results of this study signaled that environmental issues are not considered as a priority, with regard to the organization of the Informal Working in the city. In addition, the working conditions offered to workers by the government is weak, mainly due to the lack of sanitation. The most aggravating is that such conditions endanger the health and safety of workers. The survey results allowed to suggest three strategies for sustainability work in Parintins, being the following: 1) execution of actions of government policies on labor, employment and income; 2) linkage to social control; 3) strengthening the socio-political organizations of informal workers.