The Industrialization of São Paulo, 1800-1945

by Warren Dean

Book Overview

S o Paulo is one of the few places in the underdeveloped world where an advanced industrial system has grown out of a tropical raw-material-exporting economy. By 1960 there were 830,000 industrial workers in the state, producing $3.3 billion worth of goods. It had become Latin America's largest industrial center.

This is a study of the early years of manufacturing in S o Paulo: how it was influenced by the growth and decline of the coffee...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292735626
• ISBN13: 9780292735620
• Release Date: January 1969
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"