Vendedores informales, perspectivas de una realidad social y económica

Abstract

Informal work is a social phenomenon that seems to be linked to the lack of formal job opportunities that is increasingly evident in the increase in informal vendors. In this way, this research aims to identify and describe the socioeconomic characteristics of informal vendors in the Center of Cali and their influence on the permanence of these people in this profession. For what seemed to us pertinent the analysis of information from a mixed cut, that is to say, quantitative and qualitative, it is for this reason that as an element of information collection 60 surveys and 10 semi-structured interviews were carried out with the informal vendors of the Center of Cali. From its development, it can be inferred that the socioeconomic conditions of the vendors indirectly and directly affect their family environment, their physical and emotional health, on the other hand, it was observed that solidarity between informal vendors is an aspect that has allowed the regulation and the permanence of them in the public space and that this in an implicit way. However, in terms of public policies, until the moment of the investigation, the public policy for the informal union has not yet been implemented, which embraces the interests, rights that people have to access decent work that guarantees well-being of these populations.