摘要:Having as objective to analyze the textile industry and the web of socio spatial relations that it connects, in this study we look back to the training and development of the textile industry in Ceará, since its inception, through the 1980s, until the present day, in another context of industrial capital under the state action with the current model of industrialization policy. In the analysis, we tried to explain how the textile industrial activity participates in the production of Ceará space. To this end, we used both the literature as statistical and field research. Thus, the importance of this study became notorious as it has highlighted the role that the industry develops in Ceará space and the socio-spatial relationships built over time. Keywords: industry, space, Geography.