Produção têxtil em São Bento: impactos da importação de artigos para o complexo têxtil no século XXI.

Abstract

Study the textile economic crisis of São Bento - PB, one of the great industrial poles of Paraíba, is to understand a fundamental part of the Brazilian economic history of the XXI, since the crisis is not restricted only to the textile sector and it derives not only from world market maneuvers, but also government initiatives. It is also the possibility of being able to observe the market dynamics of a small town in the hinterland who from the beginning of his social and economic history, around 1889, provided the society with few instructions to acquire a high degree of purchasing power, in addition to generate income for most of the surrounding cities, becoming known worldwide, but that has allowed itself to be “diluted” in the face of Chinese imports. The object of study of this work is, in this sense, to examine in detail the impacts of the importation of articles textiles of Chinese origin in the first years of the 21st century, as well as market analysis and São Bento industries that have “lost” space even for their own entrepreneurs, thus avoiding the anonymity of essential factors of this economic crisis. Furthermore, seeks to understand the role of industrialists and the government, in an attempt to stop the process of local and national deindustrialization.