Circuitos da economia urbana e a feira gastronômica popular no bairro da Trindade em São Gonçalo (RJ)

Abstract

This study's social and scientific relevance lies in analyzing the growth of popular street commerce in Leonor Corrêa Square, located in the Trindade neighborhood of the municipality of São Gonçalo, in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region. The research focuses on the popular food market in Trindade Square. The objectives were to analyze the socio-spatial events and processes that intensified the expansion of the lower economic circuit in this urban center. The chosen methodological framework was historical and dialectical materialism to interpret the recent transformations in the morphology of the worlds of work—based on the quantitative and qualitative changes of this street commerce. The methodology and approach used were semi-structured interviews with the square's merchants, combining primary and secondary data. The conclusion was that the growth of informal work in popular street commerce is rooted in the transformations of the capitalist mode of production with the hegemony of platform capitalism, which has led to the flexibilization of labor relations marked by the digitalization of the territory. Therefore, the new uses of territory in peripheral spaces by the popular economy form a new social architecture commanded by financial capital, creating new links of subordination/dependence between the circuits of the urban economy.