A atividade de confecções no cariri paraibano: percepções de mudanças.

Abstract

The present study sought to analyze the garment activities in the Paraíba cariri, especially the perceptions of changing that the subjects have about the new forms of work that have occurred with the insertion of confection units in this territory. The focus of this work was to identify and analyze how the subjects see some changes occurred in such space after the introduction of sewing in the Santa Cruz do Capibaribe. We then try to perceive from a cut made in the small municipality of Coxixola located in Western Cariri, through interviews with seamstresses, as well as with some manufacturers and the manager of the municipality, what these production units caused to change their lives and of their families, since these are families living from subsistence agriculture and today they seek to combine the scarce return of income from agriculture to the work of sewing, which has been the livelihood of dozens of families in this region, has become increasingly relevant to the local economy. Throughout the research we worked on three points about the vision of workers in the region: 1) about the new forms of work in the rural environment, thus showing the coexistence between subsistence agriculture and sewing in the researched environment, noting that even these families having the need to introduce another activity in their midst, seek to combine it with agriculture so as not to lose its roots; 2) the development of the confection units in this space, giving a brief look at how the seam was introduced and developed in the region; and 3) how workers perceive the major changes in the region from the insertion of the seam.