Automation and labour in the Brazilian car industry

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• Hubert Schmitz is a Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex; Ruy de Quadros Carvalho is Research and Planning Officer at the Institute of Economic and Social Planning (IPEA) in Brasilia. A good part of this article is based on team research sponsored by the International Labour Office and the United Nations’ Development Programme (Project BRA/82/024) and carried out under the auspices of the Institute of Economic and Social Planning (IPEA/IPLAN). The authors are grateful to their collaborators, José Carlos Peliano, Martha Cassiolato, Nair Bicalho de Sousa, Leda Gitahy and Ricardo Neder for permission to draw upon the findings of the joint work. For the full research report, see Peliano et al. [1988]. Parts of the research findings are also presented in Carvalho [1987]. The purpose of this article is four fold: (1) to distil further the main findings from a very detailed investigation; (2) to sharpen the analysis; (3) to set the Brazilian experience in an international context; and (4) to make at least some of the research available in English. The responsibility for everything that is said in this article is entirely the authors’.
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