This study sought to apprehend the labour experience of the subjects who work as hawkers at the urban trains used in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region (RJMR). At some point of their lives such subjects couldn’t allocate themselves in the formal work market and, therefore, to provide ways of assuring theirs own family survival. For this reason they went to work as hawkers at the railroad, an alternative that initially had a temporary character but in time it became permanent. This is a precarious work, whose dimension affects several spheres of the social lives of these workers. The scope of the hawkers is highly heterogeneous. It is composed of young and old people from both sexes and among them there are even handicapped people. Most of them don’t have permission to work in the train’s area from the SuperVia, the company that actually administrates the RJMR’s railroad. To preparete this study, we observed the work of the hawkers for approximately three years and since june of 2013 we engaged in dialogues with some of them about their work. The field work consisted in an interview of two hawkers of each of the five main lines of the RMRJ’s urban trains (Deodoro; Santa Cruz; Japeri; Belford Roxo and Saracuruna), totalizing 10 semi-structured interviews conducted at the train platforms during they daily work routine. The participant observation was also highly used during the empirical research. Such strategies aimed to understand this subjects’ work trajectory, the reasons that led them to work on the railroad area and theirs expectations towards the future. In the course of the daily observations, it was possible to apprehend the work dynamics of these hawkers. A profile of these subjects was traced and their work conditions analyzed. Beyond that, reflections were made about the work experience they acquired in the course of their lives. In order to do this, we sought to rescue the history of the interviewed hawkers as workers and even their parent’s history. From this experiences, we approaches the everyday struggles fought by these workers, such as the survival strategies and possible resistance forms engendered by them. In this sense, it was possible to observe the hawkers in their daily struggle to survive, but in the end they were not able to organize themselves collectively in order to fight for better work conditions.