Open AccessTourism and informal labor: an inevitable binomial?
Author(s) -
Luís Augusto Severo Soares
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
revista ibero-americana de estratégia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2176-0756
DOI - 10.5585/ijsm.v4i1.75
Subject(s) - tourism , decentralization , monoculture , business , labour economics , face (sociological concept) , market economy , economics , political science , sociology , agronomy , social science , biology , law
The article deals with the characteristics of the tourist employment, now becoming more and more informal due to the productive decentralization, the flexible specialization and to the deterioration of working regulations associated to the increase of temporary jobs used by companies as a form of compensating the seasonal losses and to the effective growth of disqualified labor, originated from other segments of the local and regional economies, marginalized in face of the tourist performance (tourist monoculture) and the lack of planning for the activity (labor formation, insertion of communities into the tourist businesses – productive absorption – among other factors).