Crise e reestruturação produtiva na grande empresa têxtil do médio vale do Itajaí / Crisis and productive restructuring in the great textile company on the middle valley of Itajaí

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2008

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After the commercial opening period in the 1990s, it was noticed a wide movement to restructure production in the country that brought implications to the economic, social and space fields. In the Médio Vale of Itajaí this modifications have also been observed mainly from a point of view of a new spatial productive organization. The big textile business is considered the main agent of this process. A broad survey was carried on in order to get information from the main clothing and textile companies from this region. Besides that, analyses of the big companies were also done. Among the most important information taken it can be seen individual production of the companies as well as data related to the levels of job, imports, exports, etc. Quantitative and qualitative information were used which allowed establishing the determinant causes of the process of productive restructure observed in the region. As a starting point of the changing process in the routine of the big companies, the thesis that the commercial opening played a preponderant role in the spatial and economic transformations of the region was contested. An analyses considering the fall of the capital profitability as a determinant cause of the process was instead proposed. This way, given the nature of this kind of activity, clothing textile, it was observed that the restructure process, besides leading to significant technological investments, involved also the desverticalization of the production, which means outsourcing, influencing, therefore, the spatial dimension of the process. As a result, unemployment could be seen, because of the production reorganization of each company as well as the cutting of some production lines, the creation of new products, and a strong flexibilization of the capital-work relations, with significant implications over the region salaries. After this broad adjustment, a bigger grow in the level of production was verified, although the imports were still present, pointing clearly to the fact that the process had no correlation. Parallel to a bigger introduction of new technologies, in the form of more modern machinery and equipment, it was observed the return to old ways of organization production, as the work at home, fact that put into evidence that the modernization process, in this specific case, cannot avoid using devices considered old-fashioned. The capital, in its search for intensifying the best value, focusing in broadening the accumulation, uses old techniques and devices whenever convenient. Thus the productive restructure of the region implied in a wide spatial restructuration, with the outsourcing of some parts of the process, mainly sewing, new productive regions, including some of them far from the Médio Vale do Itajaí.

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crise econômica graeat textile company grande empresa têxtil outsourcing espaço space reestruturação produtiva terceirização economic crisis productive restructuring

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