A dinâmica do circuito da economia urbana na produção de confecções em Fortaleza-CE

Abstract

The Clothing Industry is present in various cities of late capital and it is responsible for the provision of a significant quantity of jobs for the urban population, establishing a means of interscale production, which links the local process to the global one. In this context, there are considered the modifications made in the way of producing, managing and commercializing, provided for the productive restructuration in the decade of 1970. It is looked for, then, to understand, through the theory of the circuits of the urban economy, the Clothing Industry in the city of Fortaleza, capital of Ceará. Therefore, this research aims at discussing about the relations of the superior and inferior circuits in the production of clothing and, in this way, about its repercussions in Fortaleza, where the industries of clothing (of faction and of clothing) are evidenced. For the purpose of this study, there were done some reading on its theme, as well as the execution of field researches in some industries of clothing in Fortaleza, such as Federação das Indústrias do Ceará (FIEC), Sistema Nacional de Emprego-Instituto de Desenvolvimento do Trabalho (SINE-IDT), Sindicato das Costureiras de Fortaleza, Prefeitura Municipal de Fortaleza (PMF), amongst others. It is understood, then, the importance of this work for Fortaleza. Such significance is characteristic of the inferior circuit of the urban economy, being the productive, working and commercial space relations liked in great extent to such dynamics of the urban economy. Taken into consideration what have been discussed, this research collaborates to the understanding of the space productive relations of the Clothing Industry in diverse scales, being Fortaleza its locus for empirical analysis. The understanding of the phenomenon here studied is therefore the major contribution of this research. Keywords.