La nouvelle informalité et la flexibilité du travail au Brésil/The new informality and flexibility of work in Brazil

This article discusses the issue of the new informality in Brazil and provides input to the debate on the new social identities developed in this context. Empirically, our breakdown focuses on: a) informal work in the clothing sector (garment and shoe) ; b) itinerant trade, also called "transnational' trade, made up of people involved in the sale of cheap "global" goods, who purchase merchandise abroad and resell them in Brazilian cities. The research carried out between 2011 and 2014 consists in exploratory visits of production and marketing sites, observations of work and interviews with workers, in addition to secondary data obtained from public and private institutions.