Engineers and Capitalism in Brazil

Andriei Gutierrez (1)

1 LEST - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail

Based on a partial analysis of an ongoing survey, we have managed to observe that the changes introduced into the Brazilian social and economic environment since 1990 have had a fairly strong impact on the engineers of that country. Both the transformations of the productive structure and the change in type of state intervention (tending towards neo-liberalism) have played an important role in redefining the professional group of engineers and in the formation of collective identities. This article firstly presents the way in which the literature analyses these two transformations and their effects on the reproduction of the professional group of engineers. We then present the first results of a survey carried out amongst Brazilian engineers in 2009. We show (1) the general data constituting the professional group, (2) some developing trends amongst engineers and (3) the various structural cleavages which influence the formation of engineers' opinions towards State policy.

Mots clés: engineers; Brazil; neoliberalism; brazilian capitalism; brazilian engineers; restructuring

Domaines: Sociologie

Andriei Gutierrez. Engineers and Capitalism in Brazil. Engineers and Capitalism in Brazil, Sep 2009, Warwick, United Kingdom. ⟨halshs-00411787⟩