Desenvolvimento e dinâmica socioeconômica na região de São José dos Campos - SP

Abstract

The Region of Government of São José dos Campos (RGSJC) comprises one of the most important and dynamic portions of the economy of the State of São Paulo, housing a considerable part of the state GDP and investing in important sectors for the Brazilian economy. In 2017, the region had a population of just over 1 million inhabitants, representing 43% of the population of the Metropolitan Region of the Paraiba Valley and North Coast and 2.4% of the population of the State of São Paulo. This sub region houses a considerable part of the regional industrial, road and scientific-technological structure and of the State of São Paulo itself; with diversified productive activities and different dynamics in each municipality. However, the accelerated industrial growth in some municipalities in the region since 1950 has contributed to the intense urbanization process and to deep socioeconomic and regional labor market transformations. Thus, the general objective of this work is to describe and analyze the contemporary socioeconomic dynamics in the Region of Government of São José dos Campos (RGSJC) between 2000 and 2017, facing the transformations of the urban-productive structure. For this, a historical-structural perspective on regional development will be used, along with the analysis of secondary data on regional socioeconomic dynamics. The results showed that the host city remains the main location of jobs and services, attracting the greater population and commercial flow of the metropolitan region; which ends up leading many of the municipalities of RGSJC to depend on São José dos Campos to boost the productive structure and the regional labor market.