This study investigates the institutionalization of industrial education in the Portuguese New State context under Salazar´s government (1933 - 1968) and the Brazilian New State (1937-1945), when the technical-industrial education reforms were institutionalized in both countries. The data-base include legal texts, parliamentary session minutes, congresses, directives, discourses, reports, private correspondence, article and magazines. We used a methodological –theoretical approach called the History of Comparative Education, in which the analysis of the relation between local and global fenomena substitutes the comparison between nations. The thesis is structured around six chapters. The first chapter is on objectives, methodology and organization of the paper. The second and third chapters deal with technical-industrial education in Portugal from the beginning of the proposal of education to citizenship in the First Republic until the installation of the New State in 1933. Next, it presents aspects of political, cultural and economic aspects of Portugal, and the start and institutionalization of the technical education reform in 1948. The fourth and fifth chapters analyse the start of the industrial education system in the Brazil from the implementation of Apprentice and Craftsmen Schools in 1909 to the changes which occurred in 1930. The chapters also deal with the creation process and implementation of the organic reform of the industrial education put forward in 1942. The comparative reading of the technical-industrial education reforms in Brazil and Portugal is done the sixth and last chapters, where aspects of similarities and differentiation between both teaching experiences are highlighted.