ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the policy preferences of industrialists on three main issues: agrarian reform; distribution of income in industrial enterprises; and reforms believed by industrialists to favor industry. The analysis of industrialists' policy preferences is directed at agrarian reform, distribution of income in the industrial enterprises, and reforms they believed favored industry. The policy preference questions were posed to industrialists in 1984, that is, after the economic boom that began in 1972 and after the signs of the 1982 downturn had become unmistakable. The industrialists' opposition to land distribution was also based on their lack of interest in creating a wider market by transforming peasants into consumers of industrial products. In spite of internal differentiation, industrialists exhibit an extraordinary class solidarity, which expresses itself in their political preferences. There are cleavages between importers and industrialists on tariff protection, and between workers and industrialists on salaries and labor stability.
