SPATIAL DYNAMICS OF THE LARGE DISTRIBUTION IN MINAS GERAIS: FINANCIAL CONCENTRATION AND PRECARIZATION OF WORK IN THE RETAIL FOOD SUPPLY TRADE
Precariousness of Work; Urbanization; Large Distribution
This dissertation analyzes how the financial concentration of the urban food supply retail trade is related to the process of precariousness of work and the general conditions of social reproduction in the urban space. The research is linked to Critical Urban Geography from the understanding that urban space expresses the materiality of social life. The methodology used is based on the regressive-progressive method of Lefebvre (1976). To understand the precariousness and intensification of work and its relationship with globalization, we took as a path the study of the financial concentration of supermarkets, hypermarkets and cash-and-carry stores in Minas Gerais. The objective of the research is to understand how the financial concentration of the urban food supply retail trade implies in the reproduction of the urban space and in the conditions of social reproduction