The functionality of informal trade in the creation of political power

Oscar Gonzalez Muñoz and Bertha Alicia Arce Castro
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Oscar Gonzalez Muñoz: Institute for Research and higher studies of Administrative Sciences, Universidad Veracruzana, México, Av. Dr. Luis Castelazo Ayala S/N, Industrial las Animas, 91190 Xalapa-Enriquez
Bertha Alicia Arce Castro: Dean Universidad Veracruzana, School of International Business, México, Paseo 112 Lote 2, Nueva Xalapa, 91097 Xalapa-Enríquez

International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (2147-4478), 2021, vol. 10, issue 7, 249-256

Abstract: This article delves into the analysis of informal commerce as a means of power created from the street vendor's perspective. This paper aims to evaluate the expressions of the itinerant executors of the practice of informal trade as a means of creating power. To do this, the conception of analysis, using the local practices referring to informal trade, were analyzed as a means of economic sustenance and in the same way, understood among selected groups as illegal. However independent of the local context and the established place. The thesis that follows is that the street trade has a functional character in the obtaining of power by groups; ideological promotion and not just an economic justification. The main findings and results of the research demonstrated that the decisions of the executors of the practice are permeated by a motivation for the illegal practice, which wanders between what is economically necessary and politically permissible. The situation that determines the functionality and applicability of informal trade acts, underestimates compliance with the existence of local trade policies and regulations of social life and instead, they are recognized as legitimate as they belong to groups of political control. Therefore, it contributes to the defense of the hypothesis, based on demonstrating that the practice of ambulance is presented as a valve for attention to unemployment, while it is tolerated as a means of opportunity to the creation of political power independent of the local or regional context. Key Words: Informal trade, power, illegality, employment

Date: 2021
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