Instituto Nacional do Pão

Coordenação do Ciclo Económico do Pão no Estado Novo Português

Abstract

The corporative regime of the Portuguese Estado Novo tried to build itself upon a hierarchy of organisms as show by Manuel de Lucena in his studies. Following those same studies about the Portuguese corporative system, this article’s main goal is to present a historiographic view over the Instituto Nacional do Pão (I.N.P.), an infrastructure of economic coordination and inspection created during the initial years of the Portuguese Estado Novo, to ensure corporate control over the national bakery industry and aggregated economic sectors. This article focuses itself on topics about it’s nature, creation, operation and articulation within the political and corporative spheres.