Shopping popular na cidade de Montes Claros-MG : uma análise de sua complexidade sob a ótica da teoria dos dois circuitos da economia urbana

Abstract

This work is about the Shopping Popular of Montes Claros. In the recent years, the unemployment and the precarious work relationships got stronger in Brazil. The country started to coexist with a high index of unemployment associated with the deterioration of the conditions and working relations beyond the increase of the temporary work and work without fixed income. Amongst these informal workers, the street peddlers are, perhaps, the most detached presence in the urban centers. In Montes Claros it isn’t different, above all from the second half of the decade of 1980, when the central area of the city was completely taken and almost total destroyed by these street peddlers. In March of 2003, the municipal public power constructed the Shopping Popular in a neighboring area to the related square, where the street peddlers were installed, in the direction to remove them of the streets and offering proper spaces to them. The objective of this work is to get an agreement deepened on the complex dynamics of the functioning and organization of the practised commercial activities in the Shopping Popular of Montes Claros: Commerce and informal work, profile of the storekeepers, structure of the building, strategical localization, commercialized products, subsidy of the public power, amongst other characteristics. The analysis processes based on the concept of “Economic Circuits” in the perspective of Milton Santos: superior circuit and inferior circuit of the economy. The effect of the installation of the Shopping in the central area of the city and in the space organization of this dynamic area of the commerce is also argued. The work uses the case study as research strategy, with application of techniques of documentary analysis, half-structuralized interviews and direct comment. The results confirm the complexity of Shopping Popular and point suggestions so that the legalize happens without getting difficulties to the storekeepers.