DESCORTINANDO O INVISÍVEL E AMPLIANDO O OLHAR SOBRE A INDÚSTRIA

Abstract

The nature of industry has become increasingly complex over time, and the traditional tripartite division of the economy into three sectors: primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors, which respectively encompass extraction and agriculture, industry, and commerce and services, seems to be found its limits. The traditional understanding of the factory and industry is no longer sufficient to account for recent transformations. In order to clarify the facts and processes that have emerged and previously seemed to be hidden, we must reinterpret industry. We are confronted with the emergence of a post-industrial society? This issue appears to be without merit, as when we say "after" something, we are not qualifying the thing in question; we are merely stating that it occurs subsequently. This method of expression is a means of referring to something without, in point of fact, naming it. The concept of deindustrialisation is questioned not because of a decline in industrial activity, which is a tangible reality according to the prevailing indicators, but because the emergence of new industrial production methods is overlooked. Our perspective is that we are witnessing the advent of a novel form of industrial society, in which the industrial process extends beyond the transformation of raw materials into goods. This has the effect of obscuring the distinction between industry and services. We agree with Veltz (2017) that we live in a hyper-industrial society.