Desenvolvimento local: os impactos socioeconômicos e urbanos provocados pelo crescimento da indústria têxtil no município de Itaporanga-PB

Abstract

This paper refers to the study of incipient industrialization process in Itaporanga municipality, located in Paraíba backwoods, and its implications on urban space and social indicators. From the theoretical point of view, the analysis is based on the idea of innovative entrepreneur and the management of the territory, and in development concepts that go beyond economic growth. The empirical evidence is based initially by sociospaces transformations that have taken place at the site in recent years. From that perspective, this dissertation analyzes the factors that contributed to the growth of the local textile industry, the direct and indirect impacts on the municipality and the sustainability of the sector on different scales. The municipality offers a beginner segment of the textile weaving, producing bags, towels, tablecloths, dusters, rugs, among other products, selling to all over the country, increasing the supply of jobs and causing significant impacts on urban sprawl and in socioeconomic indicators from 1996, when that process started. It was concluded that the evidence relating to the spatial growth, physical, social and economic are present in several segments as well as in the level of centrality exercised by municipality. The promotion of trade, new bank branches, installation of knowledge Industry Sesi, civil construction, increased access to goods and services and construction are factors that point to these transformations.