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Abstract
This article analyzes the impacts of the changes motivated by the opening process of the
Brazilian economy in the composition of manpower and in the demand of workers' training with technical
formation at the high school level in three agroindustrial companies of Minas Gerais State. It was used the
method of historic-organizational case study to collect data and conduct a comparative analysis accomplishing
the period from 1990 to 1998. It was observed that the researched companies passed for processes of
technological and administrative restructuring, investing in installations, equipment, release of new products,
as well as sticking to new methods and administrative practices, of production and marketing. As a result of
that restructuring, they also started to invest in training and they tend to demand labor with minimal schooling
at high school level or with technical course of the same level. However, the interviewees evaluate that the
offered technical courses were not up-date and did not assist appropriately to marketing demands. They
suggest that were included in the curricula disciplines which approach human relationships and that the
schools come to have larger exchange with the companies through technical visits and apprenticeships, which
would allow better relationship between theory and practice.