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- Title
A POLÍTICA DE INCLUSÃO DOS CATADORES DE RESÍDUOS SÓLIDOS: UM ESTUDO NA CIDADE DE FORTALEZA.
- Authors
Moreira Gomes, Ana Virginia; de Assis Aragão Neto, Francisco
- Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to examine whether waste pickers inclusion policies systems are accompanied by rights to ensure the improvement of their working conditions. The paper develops a qualitative research, carried out through interviews with waste pickers in two collective organizations in the city of Fortaleza. The analysis indicate that, in addition to degrading working conditions, associated workers do not receive the minimum wage. The inclusion of waste pickers in waste management systems through environmental standards rules does not guarantee them any labour rights. This policy still allows the use of vulnerable workers to perform an activity of municipal competence. The study concludes that improving waste pickers working conditions at a level of dignity and security will occur only when the ones who benefit from the activity of these workers are hold accountable for that improvement.
- Subjects
FORTALEZA (Brazil); RAGPICKERS; WASTE management; MINIMUM wage; QUALITATIVE research
- Publication
Direito da Cidade, 2018, Vol 10, Issue 4, p2947
- ISSN
1809-6077
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12957/rdc.2018.29922