To date the SADC region has managed to develop a manufacturing base but this base is still small as evidenced by its low contribution to GDP. For example, only three out of the fourteen SADC countries, viz. Mauritius, South Africa and Swaziland, had over 20 percent of their GDP originating from the manufacturing sector throughout the 1990s. Also to note is that while the manufacturing sector is quite diversified, the sector is dominated by industrial processes which are more of resource and labour-intensive in nature than those processes of scale-intensive, differentiated and science based in nature. TIle trade performance of the manufacturing sector supports these observations and as such the region is heavily dependent on imports for scale-intensive, differentiated and science based commodities. However, despite the fact that the region tends to focus more on resource- and labour-intensive manufacturing activities, products from these manufacturing activities are still significant components of manufactured goods imports into the region. Also to note is that since resource- and labour-intensive industries dominate manufacturing activities; these are the areas in which investment opportunities abound. For example, agro-based manufacturing presents most of the investment opportunities, with food processing presenting the majority of the investment opportunities followed by garments and textiles production. Mineral processing also presents significant investment opportunities. The analyses of the nature of the manufacturing sector also show that in a few SADC countries, viz. Mauritius, South Africa and Zimbabwe; scale-intensive, differentiated and science based industries also form a significant component of the industrial base implying more technologically complex manufacturing sectors. Since high technology and technologically complex manufacturing activities are limited, investment opportunities in these manufacturing sub-sectors are also limited to just a few countries However, with the SADC ITA in place, opportunities could arise for these limited technology-related manufacturing facilities to expand or engage in import substitution production so as to meet the demands of the growing regional market. It is also important to note that, while the region may not have as competitive advantage in these industries as in the resource- and labour-intensive industries, there is a need for the region to selectively identify and target such industries for priority development, a lesson SADC could learn from the East Asian NIC's took in their industrialisation strategy. The study also shows that the manufacturing sector has been a priority sector for both domestic and foreign investors. This has implications for industrial development because a strong and dynamic manufacturing sector would be developed, forming a sound basis for industrialisation as well as being able to effectively link and support all the other sectors of the economy. FDI could help the region to fully utilise the labour-intensive industries and use them as a stepping-stone to higher levels of industrial development. This is a lesson to SADC from the experiences of the East Asian NICs where while industrialisation was initiated by labour-intensive manufacturing, the countries were able to move into capital-intensive manufacturing due to FDI as it enabled the establishment of the industrial bases, thus leading to a rise in the share of manufactured exports. FDI could also help to develop the resource-intensive industries further by promoting further processing of raw materials into products of more value, thus propelling industrialisation through a resource-led industrial development programme as the current resource-intensive industries become fully utilised. The raw materials which occur in great abundance in the region's primary sector would have a ready market in the manufacturing sector where they would serve as inputs to the production of high value products. The currently smaller industrial base for scale-intensive products, differentiated and science-based manufactured products would benefit from the improved technological capabilities and managerial skills that result from FDI. Therefore, by impacting positively on manufacturing activities of both low and high MVA, FDI would thus have a facilitating role in establishing a more solid industrial base, broadening the current manufacturing base, and improving installed capacity utilisation. The study also shows that investment in productive capacity in the form of machinery and equipment is of great importance in the sampled SADC countries. Investment towards the acquisition of this capital is very important as this is directly relevant towards improving productive capacity. FDI could thus play a facilitating role by augmenting the current domestic investment in machinery and equipment. While the manufacturing sector within the region is still small and the current utilisation of installed industrial capacity is low, there is potential for further industrial growth. The current process to usher in the SADC Free Trade Area would have a facilitating role through various ways: viz. increasing the market size and enabling easier access through the reduction of tariff and non-tariff barriers, promoting regional competitiveness, improved utilisation of regional corridors, increasing opportunities for utilising identified intra-industry trade potentials, and providing opportunities for increased regional cross-border investment. Apart from the SADC FTA, the USA African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and the Cotonou Agreement will also motivate the identification and utilisation of existing and new potentials within the manufacturing sector in SADC. In order to improve the current nature of industries in the region, there is also a need to design and implement appropriate industrial policies and strategies. Such policies should consider the region's trade policies and the recently launched Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan (RISDP) so as to complement them. The industrial policies should also address issues relating to industrial investment, technology and local technological capabilities development, human resources development, the structure and nature of industry, the competitiveness of industries, as well as facilitating the complementarities between the agricultural and manufacturing sectors. To this end therefore, instead of relying solely on individual national industrial policies, SADC is in the process of formulating a regional industrial policy and strategies which seek to promote and support sustainable industrial growth across the region, thus facilitating industrial development.

Este trabalho tem como objetivo a descrição dos elementos que caracterizam a linguagem arquitetônica de João Filgueiras Lima, o Lelé, para a Rede Sarah de Hospitais do Aparelho Locomotor, visando à identificação dos atributos que conferem identidade aos projetos e permitem a criatividade face ao emprego de um sistema construtivo produzido em escala industrial. As análises abrangeram a articulação espacial, pelo emprego da Sintaxe Espacial; a composição das formas e sua articulação, pelo emprego de conceitos das Gramáticas de Formas; e a articulação dos componentes construtivos, pelo emprego de conceitos das Gramáticas de Cores. Os atributos identificados permitiram a descrição de uma genealogia de decisões de projeto aplicável à síntese da linguagem de Lelé. Esses atributos integram-se sob a forma de diretrizes para a construção de um Algoritmo Genético capaz de mapear novas soluções com respeito à linguagem descrita e às restrições do programa hospitalar e da industrialização. A compreensão dessa genealogia encontra aplicação tanto na prática profissional quanto no ensino de projeto. As conclusões do trabalho sugerem a continuidade das análises visando à construção de um algoritmo mais complexo que procure soluções com maior potencial de adaptabilidade. / This work aims at describing the elements that characterize the architectural language of João Filgueiras Lima, Lelé, developed for the Sarah Network of Hospitals for the Locomotor System, looking for the identification of attributes that assign identity to his projects and allow creativity despite of using an industrialized construction system. The analysis reached spatial articulation, using Space Syntax; the composition of shapes and their articulation, using Shape Grammars’ concepts; and the articulation of building components, using Color Grammars concepts. The identified attributes allowed the description of a genealogy of design procedures applicable to the synthesis of the language of Lelé. Such attributes are integrated into ways for coding a Genetic Algorithm that maps new solutions under the described language and the constraints of the hospital program and the industrialization process. The understanding of such genealogy finds applications both in professional practice and architectural design teaching. The conclusions of this work suggest the further development of the analysis, looking for a more complex algorithm able to search for fitter solutions.

Made available in DSpace on 2010-04-20T20:08:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 1994-10-28T00:00:00Z / O trabalho aborda algumas peculiaridades industriais e culturais destacando aspectos macroeconômicos, manufatureiros e empresariais do desenvolvimento industrial japonês. Sistemas administrativos são descritos e sua hierarquização, considerando sua importância para o crescimento da empresa, é apresentada após investigação empírica realizada junto às maiores empresas de diversos setores manufatureiros. Apresenta, também, o resultado de investigação sobre a implementação dos principais aspectos administrativos em empresas japonesas operando no exterior. Da sistematização teórica e do trabalho empírico formula-se a hipótese de 'estruturas de castelos', como mais representativa das empresas japonesas e descreve-se o processo decisório no interior das mesmas através da prática do nemawashi e do sistema ringi-sho. / The work studies some industrial and cultural peculiarities highlighting macroeconomics, manufacturing and companies aspects. Management systems are described and their hierarquization, considering their importance to the company growth, is provided after having done the empirical research close to the big companies operating in different manufacturing sectors. The results of the research about the implementation of the Japanese management in companies operating overseas are shown. From the theoretical systematization and the empirical researches the "castles structures" hyphotesis is formulated. The decision-making process is described through the nemawashi practice and ringi-sho system.

Made available in DSpace on 2010-04-20T20:48:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 71060100680.pdf.jpg: 17238 bytes, checksum: 045208f91340e1f363fcc53f2da74165 (MD5) 71060100680.pdf: 1918382 bytes, checksum: 560facccd930ecd1469fd9e75acf6a7d (MD5) 71060100680.pdf.txt: 576611 bytes, checksum: 1169fbf3b05d1e8b266f42fa9d80f8f8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-07-02T00:00:00Z / This study traces the history of management in Brazil in the early twentieth century. Because of the upheavals of industrialization and the great multiunitary industries at the turn of the twentieth century in the São Paulo area, we have centered our analysis on this region and period. We focus particularly on the first twenty years after the founding of the Institute for the Rational Organization of Work (IDORT) in 1931 in the city of São Paulo. We view this event as the first organized effort to spread the doctrines and principles of management in Brazil. Therefore, our study aims to examine how it happened the attempt to introduces Management by IDORT in São Paulo in the 1930s and 1940s. Our theoretical framework is constituted within the institutionalist historical analysis and the works of authors concerning the historical theory of big companies, but also the perspective of Brazilian social history, which observes the conditioning of Brazilian institutions to references which differ from those of the emergence of the social and economic order which is characteristic of modern times. For this reason, we begin with the premise that the attempt to introduce management into the country following the founding of IDORT was conditioned by an institutional context that had traits of traditionalist patrimonial elements. Methodologically, we sought to let our research be guided by documents found in historical archives when we analyzed IDORT’s historical documents from its first two decades. We found elements revealing that the operations of this organization were redirected owing to the difficulties it faced in the early years and opportunities that arose when the president of the Institution was nominated for the position of governor of São Paulo State. We concluded that the relative lack of commitment on the part of industrialists at that time to IDORT’s management project was a key point in the shift of focus by the institute from the private to the public sector. However, this was also the case with the shift of focus from first and second degree administration levels to the operational level. We found evidence that suggests that this attitude of the average entrepreneur in São Paulo’s industry in the early twentieth century was due to the incomplete transition of large industries at that time to professional management, which only became more widespread in later decades as a result of an initiative on the part of the State to create important schools of management in the country and intensify its policy of substituting imports through the strict application of the ‘lei de similares’. / O presente trabalho resgata a história do Management no Brasil no início do século passado. Tendo em conta a efervescência da industrialização e das grandes indústrias multiunitárias durante a virada do século dezenove para o vinte na região de São Paulo, centramos nossa análise neste período e local. Focamos particularmente o período da fundação do Instituto de Organização Racional do Trabalho (IDORT), criado em 1931 na capital paulista, até vinte anos após a sua criação. Consideramos este evento como o primeiro esforço organizado de disseminação das doutrinas e princípios do Management no país. Assim, nosso estudo teve por objetivo verificar como se deu a tentativa de introdução do Management pelo IDORT durante as décadas de 1930 e 1940 em São Paulo. Nosso quadro teórico de referência é constituído fundamentalmente dentro da análise histórica institucionalista, onde se destaca o trabalho de autores da teoria histórica da grande empresa, mas também contemplando a perspectiva da história social brasileira, que observa o condicionamento das instituições brasileiras a referências diversas daquelas que sustentaram a emergência da ordem econômica e social característica da modernidade. Por isso, partimos da premissa de que a tentativa de introdução do Management no país com a fundação do IDORT foi condicionada por um contexto institucional marcado por elementos de uma orientação tradicional patrimonialista. Metodologicamente, buscamos nos orientar pela pesquisa documental em Arquivos Históricos, onde analisamos documentos históricos do IDORT referente às duas primeiras décadas de existência do Instituto. Identificamos elementos que revelam terem sido as ações desta organização redirecionadas por conta das dificuldades enfrentadas nos primeiros anos e pelas oportunidades que surgiram com a nomeação do presidente do IDORT para o governo do Estado de São Paulo. Concluímos que o relativo descomprometimento dos industriais daquele período com o projeto de racionalização gerencial do IDORT foi crucial para a mudança de foco instituto do setor privado para o setor público, mas também da mudança do foco no nível da administração de primeira e segunda linha para o nível operacional. Apontamos indícios que sugerem que esta atitude do típico empreendedor industrial paulista do início do século passado se deu devido a transição incompleta das grandes indústrias daquele período para a administração profissional, que somente veio a se realizar mais extensivamente nas décadas seguintes, com a iniciativa do Estado na criação de importantes escolas de administração no país, bem como com a intensificação da política de substituição de importações promovida com a aplicação rigorosa da lei de similares.

This master thesis work concerns monitoring implementing methods on cutting operations for high cost part in the aeronautics and space fields. The final goal is to set tools to support industrial implementing but even more sustain acknowledgments and methods beyond the mission. This mission covers both a technical and a project management issue with related human factors. In this report, the following axis will be developed: • Monitoring on cutting operations stat of the Art. • The developed simulation function to secure monitoring. • Technical modifications at Numerical Command (NC) programming level and Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) level to obtain a simplified use of monitoring and reach the targeted production functioning. • The obtained results and expectations.

Text in Afrikaans / Een van die grootste probleme waarmee die prediker in 'n industriele konteks te doen het, is om die evangelie op 'n sinvolle wyse aan die hoarders oor te dra. Die radikale verandering in die samelewing deur die moderniseringsproses, het die homiletiek gedwing om teoreties her te besin. Hierdie moderne homiletiese teorie soos deur H.J.C. Pieterse, T.G. Long en G.D.J. Dingemans verteenwoordig het die volgende belangrike teoretiese aanpassings gemaak: Eerstens, in plaas van die tradisionele beweging van die teks na die hoarders, is die homiletiese proses omgekeer. Die beweging is nou vanaf die hoarder na die teks deur middel van die prediker en weer terug van die teks na die hoorder. Tweedens, hierdie benadering het noodwendig hermeneutiese implikasies gehad. Daarom het die homiletiek die bree aanpak van die moderne kritiese hermeneutiek in diens geneem. Derdens moes 'n nuwe kommunikasieteorie ondersoek word naamlik, die dialogiese kommunikasieteorie van H.J.C. Pieterse en C.J.A. Vos. / One of the greatest problems, with which a preacher in an industrial context have to deal with, is to convey the gospel in a sensible manner to the listeners. The radical change in society caused by the modernisation process, forced homiletics to review its theoretical base. Modern homiletics as represented by H.J.C. Pieterse, T.G. Long and G.D.J. Dingemans, has made the following theoretic adjustments: Firstly, in stead of the traditional movement of the text to the listeners, the homiletical process is revearsed. The movement is from the listener to the text by means of the preacher and back from the text to the listener. Secondly, this approach inevitably has hermeneutic implications. Therefore homiletics has employed the broad approach of modern critical hermeneutics. Thirdly, a new communication theory has to be developed namely, the dialogical communication theory of H.J.C. Pieterse and C.J.A. Vos. The most important theoretical foundation for preaching in an industrial context is the approach of taking the listeners as starting point without neglecting the text. In practice, it brings about that the following topics ask for particular attention: For the understanding and formulating of the message of the Scriptures, the modern critical hermeneutics and the use of metaphors is of the greatest importance. The new understanding of rhetorics which is about conveying the message, must be taken into consideration. The formulating of the message in the language of the listeners has a theoretical influence on the formulating and use of the theological concepts during preaching. The dialogical communication theory is also of great importance, and has dialogue before, during and after the preaching in mind. For it to be fulfilled, preaching work groups is an important component to improve dialogical communication in the congregation. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / D.Th. (Practical theology)

SOUSA , Mabel Melo. Alinhavando sonhos / construindo realidades: os significados do trabalho para mulheres do Município de Horizonte - Ce. 2009. 125f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Psicologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Psicologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2009. / Submitted by moises gomes (celtinha_malvado@hotmail.com) on 2012-03-14T18:47:04Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2009_dis_MMSousa.PDF: 2806404 bytes, checksum: 1e0c2e6a5795eb5d28e64d15250f692a (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-03-22T12:51:03Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2009_dis_MMSousa.PDF: 2806404 bytes, checksum: 1e0c2e6a5795eb5d28e64d15250f692a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-03-22T12:51:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2009_dis_MMSousa.PDF: 2806404 bytes, checksum: 1e0c2e6a5795eb5d28e64d15250f692a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / The aim of the present research is to analyze how the women who live in the community quilombola in the district of Horizonte-CE and participants of the social project “Sewing the Dreams / Building Realities”, mean the work, their participation in the Professional capacitating Project and their condition as women who live in a territory which is known as quilombola. From the 1970’s on, the capitalism crisis has been responsible for a series of transformations in the working world, characterized mainly by the flexibility in the processes of production and market, by condition and workforce precarization and by the reconfiguration of productive plants. The changes have contributed for a deep alteration in the methods of organization and the working and jobs’ dynamics which are reflected in the employers as well as in the employees attitudes and also in their representations concerning the work. The district at issue joins this scenario and faces deep changes due to the recent process of industrialization. The mentioned social project was elaborated according to the current public policies assumptions and had as a proposal to professionally qualify mothers who are household heads to generate work and income, priorizing the construction of a professional autonomy. The methodology used in the research was the qualitative approach using as techniques the participant observation and the semi-directed open interview involving seven women. The data obtained were analyzed from the following categories: work experience in plants, a matter of gender or race related to work; experience in the Project re-meaning the work. The dream of opening their own business or working by themselves which is present in the women’s speech is postponed by nowadays difficulties, by financial impossibility and by the values which are still scattered in the so called wage society. The interviews show how the work is important and central in the life of each of them. / A presente pesquisa teve como objetivo analisar como mulheres, moradoras da comunidade quilombola do município de Horizonte-CE e participantes do projeto social “Alinhavando Sonhos / Construindo Realidades” significam o trabalho, sua participação em um projeto de capacitação profissional e sua condição de mulheres que vivem em um território reconhecido como quilombola. A partir da década 1970, a crise do capitalismo é responsável por uma série de transformações no mundo do trabalho, caracterizadas principalmente pela flexibilização dos processos de produção e de mercado, pela precarização das condições e das forças de trabalho e pela reconfiguração das plantas produtivas. As mudanças contribuíram para uma profunda alteração nos modos de organização e nas dinâmicas do trabalho e do emprego, o que se reflete nas atitudes de trabalhadores e de empregadores e nas suas representações acerca do trabalho. O município em questão integra esse cenário e se vê diante de modificações profundas em virtude do seu processo de industrialização recente. O projeto social citado foi elaborado seguindo os pressupostos das políticas públicas atuais e teve como proposta qualificar profissionalmente mães chefes de família para a geração de trabalho e renda, priorizando a construção de uma autonomia profissional. A metodologia utilizada na pesquisa foi a abordagem qualitativa, tendo como técnicas a observação participante e a entrevista aberta semi-dirigida envolvendo sete mulheres. Os dados obtidos foram analisados a partir das seguintes categorias: as experiências do emprego nas fábricas; questões de gênero e de raça ligadas ao trabalho; vivência do projeto; re-significando o trabalho. O sonho de abrir um negócio ou trabalhar por conta própria, presente na fala das mulheres, é adiado pelas dificuldades da atualidade, pela impossibilidade financeira e pelos valores ainda difundidos da chamada sociedade salarial. As entrevistas mostraram o quanto o trabalho é importante e central na vida de cada uma delas.

Assunto recorrente na literatura econômica, o desenvolvimentismo latino-americano passou a ocupar a agenda da pesquisa acadêmica a partir dos anos 1950, quando a sua gênese e o seu significado histórico como fenômeno econômico e político tornaram-se objeto de estudo de distintos cientistas sociais. Este trabalho parte da concepção de que, em suas origens, três foram as correntes as quais se amalgamaram para a sua formação: nacionalismo, industrialização e papelismo. Assim, embora haja relativo consenso de que, no Brasil, a política desenvolvimentista aparece de forma mais nítida após 1930 com o processo de substituição de importações, esta tese propõe-se a analisar a obra de três autores, típicos representantes de cada uma dessas vertentes, com o propósito de levantar evidências para robustecer a hipótese de que se trata de um fenômeno cuja origem remonta ao final do século XIX. Para tanto, destaca-se a originalidade do pensamento de Serzedello Correa, Amaro Cavalcanti e Rui Barbosa, autores os quais, em período de pleno domínio da ortodoxia econômica, procuraram não apenas afastar-se do paradigma tradicional, como também avaliar a pertinência de tais ideias ao que entendiam ser a realidade de um país exportador de produtos primários. Indo além, fizeram uma precoce e enfática defesa da intervenção estatal, da industrialização e da necessidade de “construção nacional”, motivo pelo qual podem ser considerados como precursores do desenvolvimentismo brasileiro que ganhou expressão ao longo do século XX. / A recurrent issue in economic’s literature, Latin-American developmentalism started to occupy the academic research agenda from the 1950’s on, when its genesis and its historical meaning as an economic and political phenomenon became the object of study of several social scientists. This work stems from the conception that, in its origins, there were three elements which amalgamated for its formation: nationalism, industrialization and papelism. This way, despite the consensus that, in Brazil, the developmentalist policies appear in a clearer way after 1930 with the importation substitution process, this thesis aims to analyze the oeuvre of three authors, typical representatives of these currents of thought, with the purpose of bringing out evidences to fortify a hypothesis related to a phenomenon whose origins remounts to the end of XIX century. In order to achieve this, it highlights the originality of Serzedello Correa, Amaro Cavalcanti and Rui Barbosa’s economic thoughts, which attempted not only to move away from the traditional paradigm, but also to adapt and validate the relevance of those ideas to what was deemed to be the country’s reality, marked as a primary products export economy. Moreover, they made a premature and emphatic defense of the industrialization and of the necessity of a “national breeding”, reasons why they can be considered one of the Brazilian and Latin-American developmentalist precursors that gained importance along the XX century.

O objetivo principal desta dissertação é analisar o processo de industrialização da economia brasileira, entre 1930 e 1980, sob uma ótica evolucionária. Ademais, se buscará analisar o catching-up que possibilitou a inserção da economia brasileira no quarto paradigma tecno-econômico, entre 1956-1980. E o subsequente falling-behind dessa economia, que entravou a sua entrada no paradigma tecno-econômico da tecnologia da informação. Como objetivos específicos emerge, em primeiro lugar, a necessidade de se descrever os aspectos tecnológicos, econômicos e institucionais desses dois paradigmas. Em segundo lugar se demonstrará de que maneira o Processo de Substituição de Importações foi fundamental para a inserção da economia brasileira no paradigma da produção em massa. E em terceiro lugar, se demonstrará que o legado institucional dessa mesma estratégia de desenvolvimento veio a ser um obstáculo à inserção da economia brasileira no quinto paradigma tecno-econômico. Destarte, a hipótese assumida é de que a dificuldade enfrentada pelo Brasil para assimilar os fatores-chave derivados da quinta revolução tecnológica advém da precária estrutura institucional construída ao longo da industrialização via substituição de importações. A passividade tecnológica e fragilidade institucional desse modelo de desenvolvimento, que não estabeleceu um nexo micro-macro, foi um obstáculo à endogenização do processo inovativo e impediu que a indústria brasileira ficasse em sintonia com a tecnologia dominante. / The main objective of this dissertation is to analyze the process of industrialization of the Brazilian economy, between 1930 and 1980 under an evolutionary perspective. Moreover, it will try to analyze the catching-up which allowed the insertion of the Brazilian economy in the fourth techno-economic paradigm, from 1956 to 1980. Besides that it will investigate the subsequent falling-behind of this economy, which impeded their entry into the techno-economic paradigm of information technology. The specific objectives emerge, first, the need to describe the technological, economic and institutional features those two paradigms. Secondly it will demonstrate how the Import Substitutive Process was essential for the insertion of the Brazilian economy in the paradigm of mass production. And thirdly, it will demonstrate that the institutional legacy of that development strategy came to be an obstacle to the insertion of the Brazilian economy in the fifth techno-economic paradigm. Thus, the assumption made is that the difficulty faced by Brazil to assimilate the key factors derived from the fifth technological revolution comes from poor institutional structure built along the industrialization through import substitution. Technological passivity and institutional weakness of this model of development, which has not established a micro-macro link, was an obstacle to endogenization of the innovative process and prevented the Brazilian industry to stay in tune with the dominant technology.

Este trabalho tem como objetivo compreender a atuação de um grupo de empresários no processo de industrialização e modernização da cidade de Rio Grande, no início do século XX. O período de análise vai de 1884, quando a Fábrica Rheingantz se transforma em sociedade por ações , até 1913 , momento que precede a Primeira Guerra Mundial, quando movimentos políticos e econômicos alterariam profundamente as relações produtivas no país. A pesquisa apoia-se nos métodos prosopográfico e indutivo de análise, para os quais foi construído um banco de dados em linguagem de programação SQL. Como fontes de dados usa-se uma série de documentos corporativos , inventários e testamentos , entre outras . São explorados critérios como relações de parentesco e financeiras e as próprias conexões entre um conjunto grande de empresas locais . O trabalho surge da necessidade de se demonstrar os elos existentes entre um conjunto variado de empreendimentos (assistenciais , industriais , comerciais e financeiros ) e as trajetórias de vida dos sujeitos envolvidos nesses processos. / The purpose of this study is to understand how a group of businessmen acted in the industrialization and modernization of the city of Rio Grande, Brazil, in the early twentieth century. The period analyzed goes from 1884, when Fábrica Rheingantz becomes a limited partnership per shares (partnership in commendam per shares), until 1913, right before World War I, when political and economic movements cause deep changes in Brazil's productive relations. An SQL database was constructed to support the use of prosopography and the inductive method of analysis in the study. The primary data sources were corporate documents, probate proceedings and wills, among others. The study analyzes criteria such as family ties, financial relationships and the very connections among a large set of local companies to better understand the ties between a diverse group of enterprises (in the welfare, manufacturing, commerce and finance sectors) and the life stories of the subjects involved in these processes.