SOUZA, E. L.; SOUZA, Elâine de Lima.
Abstract:
In the region of Agreste Pernambucano is located the largest and most
important textile productive cluster in the Brazilian Northeast. The Agreste clothing hub
has as main productive cities, Santa Cruz do Capibaribe, Toritama and Caruaru. In recent
decades, these municipalities have shown significant economic and population growth as a
result of this commercial activity. In this scenario of production and sale of clothing, the
city of Santa Cruz do Capibaribe stands out, as it is considered the largest clothing
producer in the Northeast and the second largest in the country. Therefore, this work aims
to make an analysis, about the territory called at first "Calçadão" or "Poerão", and later
as Calçadão de Confecções Miguel Arraes, where the fairgrounds who did not get boxes at
Moda Center Santa Cruz were accommodated. . We seek to understand the socio-spatial
dynamics that exist in this whole process, since the removal of the fair from the city center
to a peripheral area of the same. We highlight the contradictions between the two
commercial territories, the private Moda center Santa Cruz and the public Calçadão de
confections Miguel Arraes. From this analysis, it was possible to observe that in this
clothing territory, there are many inequalities and exclusions, according to the current
capitalist logic. It was evident that the withdrawal of the popular fair in sulanca, held until
then on the streets of the city, served more to the interests of large businessmen than to
small sulanqueiros. And that despite a structural improvement of the public enterprise
Calçadão Miguel Arraes, there is still a huge disparity with the neighboring enterprise
Moda Center, which has hampered the economic growth of that commercial territory.
