1、2000 英文单词, 10500 英文字符 ,中文 3300 字 文献出处: de Pdua Carrieri, Alexandre, and Ivana Benevides Dutra Murta. Cleaning up the city: A study on the removal of street vendors from downtown Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences/Revue Canadienne des Sciences de lAdministration 28.2
2、(2011): 217-225. Cleaning up the City: A Study on the Removal of Street Vendors from Downtown Belo Horizonte, Brazil Alexandre de Pdua Carrieri Abstract This article presents a critical analysis of the relocation of street peddlers in Belo Horizonte, Brazil to the Shopping Popular indoor markets of
3、the city. In its attempt to “clean up” downtown through such relocation, city council affected the dissolution of the informal work of the citys peddlers and toreros and increased the precariousness of the political and social conditions these vendors face at work. We conducted a site visit and gath
4、ered data using discourse analysis, interviews, and desk research. We argue that city councils public focus on urban revitalization served as a pretext that allowed for the serious social problems underlying the peddler issue to go unaddressed. Keywords: Brazil, informal economy, peddlers, public po
5、licies, critical management studies According to the International Labour Organization (ILO, 2006), more than a 100 million of the total 239 million people of Latin Americas labour force work in the informal economy. In Brazil alone, there were more than 10 million informal enterprises in 2003 (IBGE
6、, 2005), among which 10.3% were located in the state of Minas Gerais. A study by Curi and Menezes Filho (2009) concluded that between 1984 and 2001 Brazil experienced an increase in the transfer of workers from the formal to the informal sectors of the economy. The peddlers and toreros in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais belong to this informal economy in Brazil. The emergence of an informal economy is usually attributed to a crisis of the Fordist Model, along with a lack of job opportuni