Industrial growth and economic politics in 1930/40 years

Abstract

This paper aims to point the interfaces of the industrial advancement inSão Paulo related to two basic factors: the coffee growing economic crisis precipitated by the crash in New York’s Stock Market in 1929, and the new political environment engendered after the 1930 coup. Both factors permit a reflection on the importance of the State role as administrator of economic politics and articulator of the changing in the capital reproduction pattern in the country. It will be showed some appointments on the creation of the Companhia Nitro Química Brasileira [Brazilian Nitro Chemistry Company] by means of exemplifying the association between the State and the industrial capital in the period.