The purpose of this article is to discuss the main transformations that occurred in the context of the
international division of labor in the period after World War II. In order to understand this important
phase of the capitalist system, it was necessary to draw an analysis from the historical and economic
perspective of this context of new institutions that were emerging there. After the Second World War,
there was a general transposition of the Fordist industrial logic and the pattern of mass consumption of the North American Fordist accumulation regime towards the Western European countries and Japan.
In the wake of the expansion of the Fordist industrial model, accompanied by the proliferation of US
industrial affiliates, US banks were behind with financial support. This regime of intensive
accumulation, centered mainly on "mass consumption" and the imitation of the American way of life,
could be spread rapidly due to the monopoly wages and nominal profits - a growth rate of social
consumption proportional to the increase in industrial productivity. In view of the above, there is no
doubt that globalization within the capitalist mode of production has greatly influenced the spread of
financial capital throughout the globe, responsible for major transformations in the international
division of labor.
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