A indústria têxtil em Pernambuco: apogeu e crise (Século XX)

Abstract

The present work aims to show how textile industrialization, in the state of Pernambuco, had its peak and crisis in the 20th century. To support the studied industrial context, we started the work showing how industrialization occurred in Brazil in the 19th and 20th centuries, with emphasis on the textile industry, its difficulties, its contradictions and its evolution until reaching the last century. The textile industry in the state of Pernambuco is also shown in detail, from when it was an incipient industry, to the moment when it became the largest textile industrial park in Brazil and then to its decline in the 20th century, when the entire industry textile in its entirety, that is, since the planting of cotton, spinning and weaving enter into a fatal crisis. We show that what seemed to no longer exist reappears little by little in the state, in the last link of this industrial segment: clothing. The emergence of the Agreste Clothing Pole, which came up with such a strange name, Sulanca, which has no meaning for the clothing industry in a small, off-the-beaten-path town and which is rapidly growing, spreads to other cities in the Agreste region. and becomes one of the great poles of the Northeast region and the country.