Tese
Produção rígida, acumulação flexível: comandos globais e processos urbano-regionais na região mínero siderúrgica do Alto Paraopeba, Minas Gerais
Fecha
2015-08-21Autor
Leandro de Aguiar e Souza
Institución
Resumen
The present thesis is originated from a territorial study about the Region of Alto
Paraopeba, located in Minas Gerais State, Brazil, historically linked to the mining and
steel circuits of production. From this point were developed discussions in different
scales: regional, national and global. Therefore, was comprehended how the great
global capital, linked to the mining and steel production, establishes nets of
production in the global space. It was found that, despite the peculiarities between
companies and its markets, the mining and steel circuits are organized through nets
of production relatively similar. These circuits are organized from command centres,
strongly articulated with the finance system, that control the production remotely
through technological information systems. To reach the territories and produce
commodities and spaces in large scale, the command centres need, at different
situations, negotiate conditions established by National States. This situation
happens because, in global productive circuits, the production of commodities tends
to occur in other countries, out of the command centres. It was perceived that, at the
context of mining and steel global circuits, the Brazilian State has been acting to
viabilize the production of low value commodities, mainly directed to external
markets. A large circuit of production and appropriation of surplus value is formed,
and the regional scale is the basic source of these values. At this context the Region
of Alto Paraopeba has been produced from a great alliance between the industrial
capital and the State. Thereby, the fundamental decisions have been made without
the participation of the local societies which, in some situations, has articulated its
actions to the appropriation of small portions of values produced and, in others, has
resisted to the establishment of new cycles of exploration.