Repositori URV

Identifier: TDX:594

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX594

Authors:
Enciso Rodríguez, Joan Pere

Abstract:
The industrial sector has played a key role in the economic development of both Spain and Catalonia. This work seeks to examine whether this sector has been equally relevant in the economic development of Lleida. It also aims to establish whether the industry that has developed in Lleida has done so in response to the needs of the local economy or in order to help decongest the industrial zone around Barcelona.The territorial scope of the study was Lleida province, within which it is possible to distinguish two clearly differentiated zones: the Lleida Plain (8th 'vegueria') and the Mountain Territory (9th 'vegueria'). The period contemplated by this study was 1964 to 1989/91. This period could be divided into three clearly distinguished economic cycles, corresponding to economic development, crisis and recovery. In the study, we used the size of the gross surplus as the criterion for studying the cycle of Lleida's industrial sector, observing whether it followed the same dynamics as those of Spain and Catalonia. It is necessary to analyse all processes of accumulation in terms of the evolution of the economic surplus. An increase in the size of the gross surplus may be the result of an increase in production, productivity and/or price that exceeds increases in costs attributable to salaries. As a result, an increase in the size of the gross surplus favours the process of accumulation, while in a period in which the size of the gross surplus decreases, this accumulation diminishes.The initial reason for this work was the fact that Lleida had, and still has, a series of important reasons for wanting to develop an industrial sector: a) The existence of important supplies of raw materials, in the form of agricultural products, that could be used to develop a series of food