Perto das fábricas, mas longe do mar: As ações dos grupos sociais no processo de industrialização em Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro (1950-1960)

Abstract

This paper aims to present the actions taken by individuals who lived in the municipality of Nova Iguaçu, at a time when the planting and trade of oranges, which was the main economic base of the municipality, were in crisis. This crisis of the iguaçuana citriculture developed throughout the 50's, and with that, subjects active in politics and society as a whole, found themselves inserted in a new economic and social perspective, where the main economic product of Nova Iguaçu no longer met the demands of the elite and the local society, while there was, from the Federal Government, an intense stimulus to the urbanization and industrialization in the national scope. This work aims to understand what were the actions established by these acting subjects in Nova Iguaçu, which was a peripheral municipality of the State of Rio de Janeiro, in seeking to attract industries to the region, after the crisis of local citrus, and with the national policy -developmentist, implemented by the Federal Government in force in the 1950s