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Industry and Industrialisation: what has been accomplished, what needs to be done

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  • Colin M. Lewis

    (London School of Economics and Political Science)

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    It is now thirty years since the publication of the seminal study on São Paulo by Dean (1969). That work challenged a key assertion in the prevailing paradigm - structuralism - then dominating much social science and historical writing on Latin America. It also cast doubt on similarly central aspects of the soon-to-be ascendant dependista approach, a school described as `historico-structuralism' (Fishlow 1988: 97-8). For scholars rooted in cepalista and early dependency traditions, it was a truth widely-held that Latin American industrialisation was triggered by the world crisis of the 1930s. The pre-1929 (or pre-1914) `model' of export-led growth was variously presented as frustrating industrialisation or inimical to development. (It must be remembered that, at the time, industrialisation and development were held to be virtually one and the same.) Dean refuted this orthodoxy, at least in the case of São Paulo. He demonstrated that activity in the manufacturing sector was most dynamic during periods of export buoyancy. With the demise of structuralism and dependency widely predicted by their critics, has the Dean thesis on industrialisation finally been vindicated? This essay will examine how the historiography on modern Latin American industrialisation has evolved over the last three decades. It will appraise the principal directions in research, reflecting on the extent to which the route pioneered by Dean has been followed by others. It will also identify what needs to be done: where and what are the gaps in the literature?

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    Paper provided by ABPHE - Associação Brasileira de Pesquisadores em História Econômica (Brazilian Economic History Society) in its series Anais do III Congresso Brasileiro de História Econômica e 4ª Conferência Internacional de História de Empresas [Proceedings of the 3rd Brazilian Congress of Economic History and the 4th International Conference on Business History] with number 035.

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