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| Author(s): |
Michel Deliberali Marson
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade (FEA/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2012-04-20 |
| Examining board members: |
Renato Perim Colistete;
Dante Mendes Aldrighi;
Amaury Patrick Gremaud;
Flavio Azevedo Marques de Saes;
Wilson Suzigan
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| Advisor: | Renato Perim Colistete |
| Abstract | |
This thesis covers the origins and evolution of the machinery and equipment industry in Sao Paulo between 1870 and 1960. The research reasons were the gaps in the Brazilian industrialization historiography about the origins and the evolution of the capital goods industry. In general, this literature stresses the domestic dependence of foreign technological importation, the low contribution rate of the machinery and equipments sector for the national transformation industry and the late comer character of the heavy capital goods industry in Brazil. In spite of the authority of these arguments, they contribute to undervalue the raising national machinery and equipments industry, specially the participation of foreigners and landowners in its beginnings since the end of the 19th century. Throughout the research, we describe how the First World War contributed to reduce the technological importation and allowed the emergence of several small companies, particularly small workshops and foundries involved in foreign machinery support. Considering the number of founded companies, the most preeminent outcomes had a short run character, because most of them worked not so long. By other side, some companies continued to growth and develop, and a few survived until the 1960s. By lowering the machinery importation level, the Fist World War favored the larger businesses, specially the stock companies, by reducing the concurrence in the most specialized sectors. The crisis of 1929 hampered the machinery and equipments industry in São Paulo, but this decade also witnessed the acceleration of the diversification in the machinery industry production. After the crisis, the recovering in the machinery and equipments industry was fast. In the end of the decade of 1930, the sector started a regular production of machine tools. At last, we present two consistent case studies which show how the machinery and equipments industry emerged in the end of the 19th century, changed in the 1920/1930s and strengthened in the 1940s. As a result, our results disagree from the most accepted periodization of the Brazilian industrialization, which recognizes the importance of machinery and equipments industry and capital goods sector only after the 1950s. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 08/06312-6 - The capital goods industry in the state of São Paulo, 1907 - 1960 |
| Grantee: | Michel Deliberali Marson |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |