To face the stress of weather – São Paulo’s Corpo Policial Permanente policemen-workers in the end of the Empire

Abstract

It is the scope of this article to analyze São Paulo’s Corpo Policial Permanente as a valid option of occupation for an important portion of the state poor population, whose attributes were male gender, Brazilian origin and non-white ethnicity. This period is characterized by a crisis of slavery production-based system, the beginning of the mass immigration and the transfer of coffee plantations to the West.