dc.description.abstract | Social and economic life of workers miners who have only livelihood as laborers miners
brimstone with erratic income and mining products dependent on natural conditions, with the
wisdom and the knowledge they have and the social relationships that exist between miners
brimstone that is doing way meet the needs of their families. In the economic life of workers
miners brimstone in the village of Castle, District Licin have difficulty in meeting the needs of
families and miners in general. Mount Ijen serve as the main livelihood but with the state of
natural resources so abundant labor miners brimstone have not been able to utilize natural
resources in a fully because of limited capital they have and the low level of education possessed
by the workers miners brimstone in the face of life are confronted on poverty. The method used
in this research is qualitative method, determination of informants using purposive sampling, data
collection methods, methods of data validity and data triangulation technique.
The conclusion is in meeting the needs of families some of them sell handicrafts such as souvenirs
made from sulfur on tourists, as guides tourists, traders fruit, farm laborers, motorcycle taxi
drivers and a handyman this was done to meet the needs of the miners brimstone in the face of
economic difficulties so that they can still survive in a state of deprivation
Keywords: how to survive, miners brimstone, Mount Ijen. | en_US |