Desindustrialização nas metrópoles brasileiras

This article discusses the phenomenon of deindustrialization in the main metropolitan regions of Brazil during the first two decades of the twenty-first century. The objectives are to present an analysis of the production structure of the manufacturing industry in Brazilian metropolises, vis-à-vis its national insertion, to identify the branches of activity that were most crucial to the country’s metropolitan deindustrialization process, and to characterize the metropolitan regions in which this phenomenon has mostly occurred. For this, public data has been used, together with a tabulation requested from the IBGE regarding the value of industrial manufacturing in metropolitan regions over several years. It was identified that Brazilian deindustrialization is fundamentally a metropolitan phenomenon, specifically when considering the branches with the highest technological intensity. However, this process has not occurred homogeneously across the metropolises. Those that have most contributed to its occurrence were São Paulo, Salvador and Curitiba, while those that most counterbalanced this process were Rio de Janeiro and Recife.