Empreendendo o desenvolvimento: informalidade e inclusão social a partir da lei do microempreendedor individual em São Luís do Maranhão

Abstract

This study analyzes the informality and social inclusion of the adoption of the law of Individual Microempreendedor in São Luís of Maranhão, considering the application of the General Law of Micro and Small Enterprise and the benefits that this law brought to small entrepreneurs. The discussion of the different models of work organization with emphasis on models taylorist and fordist toyotist. Performs a historicizing of neoliberal thinking, structural changes in the world economy and the Brazilian economy from the 1990s, and the impacts that they have brought to the job market. Highlights the use of institutional entrepreneurship as an instrument of social cohesion, its characterization as a model of work organization that aims, in principle, to combat rising unemployment and examines its relationship to informality. Describes the policies of employment and income in Brazil and public policies to encourage entrepreneurship and to give legal form to individual microentrepreneurs. Exposes the analysis of survey of 53 small entrepreneurs located in the neighborhoods of Turu, João Paulo, Itamar and Informal Trade Center of São Luís. Identifies the profile of individual microentrepreneurs in evaluates São Luís next to individual microentrepreneurs access to benefits under the law.