Abstract

NIEVA, Florencia; GONZALEZ, Natividad  and  BERGESIO, Liliana. Women of popular economy ahead to pandemic and ASPO. Street sellers’ strategies in San Salvador de Jujuy (Jujuy, Argentina). Estud. trab. [online]. 2022, n.64, pp.89-117. ISSN 0327-5744.

COVID-19 pandemic affected people’s life all over the world. But those who work at popular economy, and specifically street sellers, had to face this special situation on conditions most unfavorable and riddle with limitations. Street sale is mostly unprotected and punished by the State, besides being focus over different stigmatizations. If the gender condition is added, whereas productive and reproductive activities overlap, this serious situation worsens. We propose to analyze economic and extra-economic strategies implemented by women belonging to the popular economy from Preventive and Obligatory Social Isolation for COVID-19, focusing on street’s sellers workers at the old bus terminal of San Salvador de Jujuy (Jujuy, Argentina). From ethnographic survey and deep interviews, we will expose commercialization and distribution strategies of women who sell different products at the street, between May and September 2020, emphasizing on acquisition and transfer of raw material or commodities for production and sell, the productive processes, change of category and new commercialization strategies. With this description we seek to focus on some of the characteristics of the popular economy, evidenced in such a disruptive context as the generalized isolation.

Keywords : Popular economy; Street sale; Women; COVID-19 pandemic; Ethnography.

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