From modern manufacture to large industry: empirical delimitation of technical change in the automotive sector in Brazil (1996-2017)

Abstract This article aims to empirically delimit the inflection of the principle on the technical basis for the Brazilian automobile sector, marking the period with the greatest probability of the transition between modern manufacturing and machine system. The research tested the hypothesis that this transition took place late in Brazil, not before the 2000s, analyzing the economic factors related to capital inversions and the change in the workforce in the period between 1996 and 2017. The research confirmed the hypothesis and also delimited the occurrence of the transition between 2000 and 2004.