Localização e a construção de estruturas espaciais para a produção e circulação do aço no espaço brasileiro

Abstract

This work aims to study the question of the location of economic activities, especially on the steel industry in Brazilian space, using the dialectical materialism theory. Thus, attempts to identify the elements both material and thought to provide an understanding of the spatial aspect of the steel production in the context of production of the Brazilian territory. To achieve these objectives, this work made use of survey qualitative data through bibliographic database; and quantitative, using statistical data and location indicators and concentration of economic activities. As a result of analysis, it was found that, unlike the theories based in the idealism and on the formal logic, the location of the Brazilian steel industry is part of the real movement and concrete. This includes historical-spatial process of building for spatial structures aimed at the production and circulation of value in spaces that transformed and incorporated into the dynamics of capital accumulation process. Therefore, the organization of space around the steel industry occurred differently, as seen in the spatial distribution of steel mills, according to the production logic of each space and its relation with the value production processes.