Humans and Machines: study of industrial coffee machines and society (1880-1910)

Abstract

This paper, engaged by disciplinary fields of Rural Sociology and Economic History, targets to elucidate the impact of the usage of machines in the farms of coffee in São Paulo at the end of XIX century about the agricultural production and the society linked to the rural plan. At the fist moment of the research, it’s possible to see the evidence of the transition of a slavish market economy to a capitalist economy of market, as a substance that moves the changing not only of the production ways, but of the social constitution and the human habits. These acute transformations can be objectively observed in the multi-ways of reaching the productivity on the format of machines – that build up a emerging level of productivity for the foreign market. What is revealed with these affirmatives is the impulsion of the machine in a new world of work (together with immigration) and a sharp change operated by acceleration of the coffee production (something reflected in the heart of people’s life).