Considerações sobre características e peculiaridades da industrialização no Rio Grande do Sul

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the characteristics and pecularities of manufacturing industry and the industrialization process at Rio Grande do Sul State. Structural and evolutive aspects are examined using extensively structural comparisons with national and sometimes international and other brazilian states performance. Special reference is given to the period 1959-80, that covers the well know intensive growth of brazilian industry. Precedent deeper studies that have been carried out by the author are the main information basis used in the paper. Attention is focused on the following subjects: dynamics of industrial growth, structural change patterns, specialization indicated by location quotient, evolution and pecularities according to the use categories, employment generation and labour productivity.The purpose of this paper is to discuss the characteristics and pecularities of manufacturing industry and the industrialization process at Rio Grande do Sul State. Structural and evolutive aspects are examined using extensively structural comparisons with national and sometimes international and other brazilian states performance. Special reference is given to the period 1959-80, that covers the well know intensive growth of brazilian industry. Precedent deeper studies that have been carried out by the author are the main information basis used in the paper. Attention is focused on the following subjects: dynamics of industrial growth, structural change patterns, specialization indicated by location quotient, evolution and pecularities according to the use categories, employment generation and labour productivity