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154 ANOS DE FERROVIAS NO BRASIL: PARA ONDE CAMINHA ESSE TREM?

2009; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE GOIÁS; Volume: 13; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5216/hr.v13i1.5413

ISSN

1984-4530

Autores

Dilma Andrade de Paula,

Tópico(s)

Business and Management Studies

Resumo

The aim of this paper is to investigate the major changes occurred in Brazil's railway policy regarding the interregional transport of passengers and loads. The establisment of Rede Ferroviária Federal (Brazil's Railway network) in 1957, unifying eighteen private companies, has had a response from the post 1990 government through the reprivatization of the network and the reformulation of the control agencies and the policies of execution. What interests do these changes serve? What are the characteristics of the Brazilian railway policy as established within the period above? These are complex issues, that involves the state form (in terms of political society), its relation with the market, the financial globalization question, the internal panorama of class struggle etc., all of which requiring more detailed studies of the railway sector in the development of the capitalism in Brazil. KEY WORDS: Transport policy, railways, Rede Ferroviária Federal S.A.

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