Privatizações das siderúrgicas nacionais: a relação entre a política e a configuração do território na década de 1995

Abstract

This work covers the relationship between policy measures and the territory, from the study of the domestic steel industry, there will be used a previous and later scenario of 1990's privatizations, attempting to show how through this relationship are shaped the social and economic activities in the territory, I mean, as occurs labor relations, the distribution of production and the competitive process in the industry. In order to analyze the relevance of privatization of the steel industry on the national economy, identifying the changes on the design of the territory in the 1990s. To achieve this, we will use the inductive method to make generalizations about the national territory. Therefore, it was observed that each lived period made different uses of the territory, being these results to the economic policy adopted. From the study of the national steel industry, a clear change was noted in the state's position on the management of social and economic relations, changing from a strong and regulator state to a minimal state and governor, who gives their rights to define the use of the territory to the other actors that became part of the overall space. Therefore, it is concluded that the traditional conception of territory, with the State as main actor, evolves to conception "used territory", characterized by being a human space inhabited and dynamic and interconnected networks, external or global mesh and centralities. However, this leads to a fragmented configuration, resulting in a national territory composed by the "competitive space" favored by minimum state. In this, performances of policy measures do not have the same scope, in terms of social relations and the uniform development of the country. Like this, what the state is searching at any given time, vanishes in the other, according to the adopted policy measures, resulting from external influences, directly affecting the territory and changing its design. The globalization added to neoliberal policies leads the territory to an inserted space in this larger context, and the evolution of this relationship will continually allow new configurations over lifetime