Abstract

SOARES, Luiz Carlos. A indústria na sociedade escravista: um estudo das fábricas têxteis na região fluminense (1840-1880). Travesía (San Miguel de Tucumán) [online]. 2015, vol.17, n.1, pp.55-77. ISSN 2314-2707.

From the 1840's onwards, several textile mills (for cotton spinning and weaving) were created in Rio de Janeiro County and in some adjacent cities of the Brazilian capital. It was, in fact, the beginning of an industrial growth not only in the textile industries, but also in several branches of industrial activity, which were stimulated by the general growth of slave coffee plantation economy, the population increase in the capital and in the provinces of Southeastern Brazil and the adoption of several measures for industrial stimulus by the Imperial government. Consequently, the objective of this paper is related to the study of the technical and productive organization of the textile mills established in the fluminense region.

Keywords : Textile Mills; Fluminense Region; Slave Society; Brazil.

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