Virginia Elisabeta Etges

Desenvolvimento socioeconômico do setor calçadista: uma empresa, duas regiões

With the phenomenon of globalization, Brazilian companies have sought growth opportunities in several ways. Through tax incentives the states, from their governments, aimed to attract investment generating competition with others, a practice known as tax competition. Some companies, using this feature installed new production units or even moved to distant regions with poor socioeconomic conditions and poor qualification of manpower. This study aimed to examine the use of the territory from the case of a footwear company, located in two regions - South and Northeast - with quite diverse Human Development indices. From a comparative analysis of the perception of 658 workers of group D on development, it is assessed the impact of the industry installation in the new location, as well as with the workers working in the companys headquarters. It was also verified the socio economic growth of the municipalities of Nova Petropolis in RS, and Russas, in Ceara, in the decade from 1997 to 2007.From the results of the research it has been identified differences between workers of the South Unit and the Northeast Unit regarding to formal education, salary level, family income, unionization, the first job, among others. As to the quality of life, satisfaction levels of workers before employment and after being hired by the company are also different in the two units. However there are points in common that relate to the acquisition of material goods, occupation and level of ambition of the workers.

Territórios luminosos e territórios opacos uma análise à luz das contribuições de Milton Santos

Esta pesquisa buscou, atraves da utilizacao das Geotecnologias, analisar a heterogenea distribuicao de imagens de satelite de alta resolucao espacial, disponibilizados pelo Software Google Earth, no territorio da regiao sul do Brasil. Embasados na metodologia proposta por Milton Santos, com enfase nas categorias de territorios luminosos e territorios opacos, buscamos identificar os territorios luminosos e opacos na regiao sul do pais.

Do campo à mesa: reflexões sobre agricultura familiar e gastronomia

Based on the assumption that there is an interaction between the rural environment and the gastronomic segment, what leads to the discussion of the territorial identity formation in which the relation between the field and the table goes beyond the simple act of planting, cultivating, reaping, trading and eating. It makes part of a set of strategies and politics able to assist the promotion of rural development and, consequently, the family-based agriculture maintenance in rural environment. The conception of rural environment is argued since the territorial perspective in which the familiar agriculture is understood as a way of life, related to the diversification of activities, among them the food production.