Indústria automobilística brasileira: construção, expansão e o caso de Camaçari-BA

Abstract

This study aimed to understand the evolution of the automobile industry in Brazil, particularly the spatial transformations that this activity brings to the places where production plants have been established, based on the locational factors that led to the establishment of these manufacturing plants in states beyond the Southeast. Using the installation of this industry in the city of Camaçari-BA, as a case study, the entire installation process and the impacts of this industrial activity on the city were traced. This transformed the already industrial character of the municipality into a kind of centrality around the Ford factory within its already consolidated industrial park. Based on specific bibliographic material, as well as data from statistical yearbooks of the sector, an analysis was made, using capital and labor as frameworks, to discuss the spatial changes brought about by the clash between these two groups with opposing interests. The relevance of this research lies in showing the benefits and risks involved in investing so much public effort to bring an activity that does indeed generate economic gains, but that in the Brazilian case, creates external dependency and exacerbates regional inequalities.