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GENERAL UNION OF INDUSTRIALISTS OF ROMANIA AND THE MANAGEMENT IN INDUSTRY
Authors: Ion VOROVENCI
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General Union of Industrialists of Romania (AGIR) was a representative institution which aimed to support
Romanian industrialists in the country's economic development. The Romanian economy had reached a certain
level, the current favorable to the industrialization had also penetrated here, given the fact that Romania had huge
resources, warning a number of foreign investors. A group of industrialists, almost all educated in the West,
understood to develop the most diverse industries, particularly those related to a specific tradition, given the
diversity of raw materials for safekeeping. The political struggle, carried out to promote the industry, was not
devoid of contradictions between the „agrarians”, who considered Romania a country eminently agricultural, on the
one hand, and the promoters of industrialization, on the other hand. Industry superiority eventually defeated the
former. In 1938, the year of peak economy, Romania had an industry that had come to equal, in terms of the share
of the national income, agriculture.