Ambulantes (1976)

• 83%
• 1976
• Wagner Carvalho
• Jorge Santos

Open market, Viaduto do Chá, selling places for street vendors and their varied products. Testimonials from dealers that justify their function due to the low wages offered by traditional companies. Without regulation in the City Hall, many of them are victims of frequent 'rapas' of the inspectors. Narrator explains that 'underemployment' is used by migrants or peasants from the interior, disqualified for the formal labor market. The bureaucratic requirement at the City Hall to regularize the street vendors' trade causes discouragement and bewilderment. At fairs and sidewalks, street vendors suffer from the insecurity of not having a fixed sales point, and often have their goods seized by inspectors.