Bahia's textile industries: yesterday and today

• Autor(a) principal: Matos, Bruna Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Lopes, Jerisnaldo Matos, Oliveira, Rosangela Moreira de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• DOI: 10.33448/rsd-v9i10.7905
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/7905
• topic: Textile industry, Industrial Revolution, Regional development, Bahia; Industria textil, Revolución industrial, Desarrollo regional, Bahía; Indústria têxtil, Revolução Industrial, Desenvolvimento regional, Bahia

Being of great importance for the economic-social scope, as the industries are part of those referenced to the development of a country or region. The textile industries were the first to fit into the primary economic sector in Brazil. Specifically in Bahia, these factories play an important role in the development of the state, in order to stand out from the others. However, there were many occasions of ups and downs in Bahian industrial power. The objective of this work is to carry out an exploratory study of the first textile industries in Bahia installed at the end of the 19th century, as a notable example the Fábrica Todos os Santos, still in operation, to contextualize how the growth of this industry took place, as well as which main aspects of economic growth in the 19th and 20th centuries. The research was conducted with methodology through analyzes that are based on a survey of the theoretical framework of reference authors in regional development, industrial revolution and its most diverse processing industries, in order to gather knowledge on the subject and show how the industrialization in Bahia influenced the development of the state. The results are characterized by data extracted from research using the database of the Annual List of Social Information (RAIS), of the Ministry of Labor and Employment, with the objective of gathering information about the textile industry in Bahia, in the period of 1985 to 2018, and concluding by demonstrating the studies and efforts spent on knowledge of the subject, relating the scenarios to the current scenario.