A Industrialização do Paraná: uma nova abordagem

Abstract

The objective of this work is to accomplish a study of the Paraná's industrialization under a new interpretative optics, which doesn't see the State as an eterna] outlying and dependent on São Paulo economy, but as an area that was industrialized excessively after 1970 and ever since, it is presenting growth taxes of the GDP superiors to the one ofthe own Brazilian average.Paraná for it being a basically agricultura! State, above ali until the decade of 1970, it was analyzed under the optics of the calls " Theories of the Dependence ".Such theories attest that the agricultura! countries live in the periphery of the industrialized countries, for the fact of they be subdued by the international division o f the work, they produce it raw materiais and to sell them to such countries while o f them they acquire manufactured products that they are usually more expensive than the primary products for containing larger joined value, relationship this that cooperates so that to trade balance of the agricultura! countries it is always deficient and that they never get to compete with the industrialized countries, also known as " central".That same theoretical foundation, leaving that more general extent of the analysis that treats of the relationship among countries, it also passed to be used to analyze the relationship among different States of a same nation. In that optics, many specialists of regional economy, started to see other Brazilian States as being outlying of São Paulo, considered as the " industrial center "of Brazil. Such condition was possible due to the existence of a division of the work in national levei, that it subdued it ali o f Brazilian States to the position o f producing o f primary goods and buyers ofthe industrialized goods produced by São Paulo. The Paraná's industrial development, for a long time, it was analyzed with base in that theoretical foundation. According to most of the specialists of the state economy, the industrialization of Paraná would be practically impossible because of own position state assumed in the division of the work in national levei: the one of producing of agricultura! goods and buyer o f industrialized goods of São Paulo. According to them been should not try to industrialize him, therefore it would never get to compete with São Paulo. On the contrary, it should struggle to produce primary goods of superior quality the those produced by the other State outlying, acquiring the position o f agricultura! producing best o f the nation. However, it was exactly thanks to the agriculture of the State that always reached high productivity index and profitability ( above ali thanks to the coffee culture in the State, during the decades of 1950 and 1960), that Paraná could gain enough income goes the assembly of the basic infrastructure in terms of construction of highways, marinate ports and !ines strong in the decade of 1960, and to propitiate the assembly o f an own industrial park in the decade o f 1970.Ever since the industry state have growing excessively, first through t...