ABSTRACT
This chapter explores and documents the growth and nature of jobs in Brazil’s electronics industry. It shows that this sector is in transition from labour-intensive assembly operations to more knowledgeintensive products and techniques. This transition, in turn, has a significant impact on the prospects for employment generation and skill formation. A driving force behind these changes has been active policy intervention. The focus is on the nationally-owned computer industry and, for the purposes of comparison, on the largely foreign-owned mainframe computer and consumer electronics industries.
