The Companhia Água e Luz do Estado de São Paulo and theirs conflicts relations in ...
Nature and urban metabolism in the restructuring production of space in Brazil and...
| Author(s): |
Alexandre Macchione Saes
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Economia |
| Defense date: | 2008-09-22 |
| Examining board members: |
Carlos Gabriel Guimarães;
José Antonio Segatto;
Jose Ricardo Barbosa Gonçalves;
Pedro Paulo Zahluth Bastos
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| Advisor: | José Jobson de Andrade Arruda |
| Field of knowledge: | Humanities - History |
| Indexed in: | Base Acervus-UNICAMP; Biblioteca Digital da UNICAMP |
| Location: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Biblioteca Central Cesar Lattes; T/UNICAMP; Sa16c; Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Centro de Documentação Lucas Gamboa (CEDOC) do Instituto de Economia; T/UNICAMP; Sa16c |
| Abstract | |
This thesis discusses the introduction of electric power in the cities of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Salvador. The Brazilian Republic Proclamation (1889) established the beginning of the public services companies¿ modernization, which through the enterprises fusion and the arrival of foreign capital allowed the electric power introduction in the main cities of Brazil. Two rival groups, in this context, started an intense competition in the Brazilian market, from the Federal capital to the two important economic cities of São Paulo and Salvador. Thus, on the one hand of the conflict was the national enterprise Companhia Brasileira de Energia Elétrica (CBEE) and, on the other hand, the canadian company Light. Through out the analysis of the conflicts between Light and CBEE the thesis shows the dynamic process occurred to incorporate one of most important results from the Second Industrial Revolution in a peripherical economy in transition to the capitalism. The inexistence of a federal legislation to electric power services had transformed municipal decisions in deterministic guidelines for utility bids, making municipal lobbying a key instrument in utility concessions. Hence, the great influx of foreign capital to Brazil and the inexistence of an objective regulation for those services allowed the sector development and the adoption of the consumption patrons of central countries, through the modernization process, that is, by a rapidly superior way of life incorporation, nevertheless with a tendency of a social inequality increase (AU) | |