O EMPRESARIADO GOIANO NA PERSPECTIVA DA REVISTA GOIÁS INDUSTRIAL 1953 A 1978.

Abstract

This research aims at identifying the measures taken by businessmen from Goias in partnership with both the federal and the state governments in order to activate the economy of Goias, especially in the industrial area. To understand this process an investigation of the Brazilian economic situation from 1930 to 1978 was accomplished, knowing that this situation was in favor of the industrialization of the country with emphasis on the concepts of corporativism, its influence on the Brazilian political system and the support of Church and of the business class in the process of the establishment of patron entities of social assistance. This research analyses the use that the businessmen and the political élite did of the ideology of corporativism which pursued integrating functions of mobilization of popular classes in order to keep workers under control, observing that the ideology of corporativism did not limit itself to the manipulation of falsely integrating values. The social peace so often emphasized by businessmen in the articles of the Goiás Industrial magazine was searched by means of concessions and solid benefits to the working class. In this research another emphasis is laid on the relevance of the role of the Social Assistance to Industry (SESI) searching for harmonization in the relationship between businessmen and the working class with the support of social assistants who, by means of an educational action , tried to adjust the contingent of workforce to the latest relations of capitalist development. In an attempt to understand the relevance of SESI/GO in the process of the economic development of the state of Goias, the actions accomplished by that institution were also analyzed observing that besides providing the workforce with specialized improvement, the institution was also concerned with providing workers with the offer of leisure areas aiming at a peacemaking of the conflicts between capital and labor. As a result it was possible to check the partnership established between the public and the private sections of business searching for the industrialization of Goias and the change of the economic profile of the state highlighting relevant industrial achievements. The main source of the documentary basis used in this research was provided by Goiás Industrial magazine which was issued from 1950 to 1970 as a meaningful register of the actions performed by businessmen from Goias in defense of their interests and in favor of the economic development of Goias.