On the evolution of the economic coordination organisms connected with farming (III)

Abstract

This article proceeds on the IV chapter of a longer study, which began in no. 56 of Análise Social, on the historical trajectory of the main «economic coordination» organisms connected with the primary sector of the Portuguese economy and founded by the Salazarist State: namely the National Juntas of Wine, Fruit and Cattle-breeding Products, the Instituts of Cereals, Olive Oil and Oleaginous Products. In the last part of the mentioned chapter, published now, one gives a synthetic description of the activity of those organisms in each one of the five studied fields: wine, fruit and horticultural products, cattle-breeding, olive oil and oleaginous products and cereals. After this, in the V chapter, the author studies the ideological and institutional evolution of Salazar's and Caetano's coordination organisms: the project of the transition, pre-corporatist organisms of 1936; the implications of the advent of the «corporations» after 1956; the reformism of the Economic Coordination Council supported by Correia de Oliveira in the beginning of the sixties; and, at last, the Caetenist reform of 1972. To conclude, and for space reasons, the author presents an abstract of the VI chapter of his study, which faces the evolution of the organ sms under analysis after the 25^th April: expansion of the undertaking trends, the crisis of the representativity notion, work division between the coordination organisms, the class associations and the State, etc., within the framework of the most recent projects of institutional redefinition.