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In 1936, a delay in the work to extend the Brasil Avenue in São Paulo city, part of a public urban improvement program, prevented several Municipal Works Department (DOP) employees from doing their job. The avenue, a vital link in the highway scheme of connecting downtown to the southern and western areas of the city, ended in a cabbage patch twenty meters short of a path already opened farther ahead.1 Visiting the site, Mayor Fábio da Silva Prado took the opportunity to talk to the cabbage patch’s owner, a chacareiro (subsistence farmer), who was watering his garden. In a serious but slightly ironic way, Prado asked, “Tell me, my friend, don’t you want the municipality to build a brand new street that will improve not only the city you live in but the site where your house stands?” Pensively, the Portuguese immigrant explained to the mayor that the piece of land they were on provided his livelihood, that the prefecture offered only 7 contos (7:000$000) for it, and that he did not know when that sum would be paid. The humble man believed this part of his land was worth more than 12 contos, and he added that even if the prefecture agreed to his terms it still might not be a good deal.2 The chacareiro argued that he and his family would starve because nobody would cover the earnings he would lose until he could settle again. Besides, it was common knowledge that the prefecture took a long time to reimburse people, that his total earnings came from this land, and that nobody would cover him until he could settle the compensation.

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  1. Paulo Duarte, lawyer, writer, historian, politician, and Fábio Prado’s right-hand man, narrated this episode twice, first in his eulogy at Prado’s funeral, Fábio Prado (São Paulo: Anhambi, 1964), 40–41, and then in his memoirs, Memórias, Os mortos de Seabrook (São Paulo: Hucitec, 1976), 226.

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  2. Delcides Carvalho stated that in 1931, the city of São Paulo was surrounded by 9,310 small rural properties dedicated mainly to horticulture and fruit growing. Carvalho used a French pseudonym in his work: Antoine Rénard, São Paulo é isto! (São Paulo: Edição do Autor, 1933), 80–81.

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  3. In 1936, as São Paulo’s mayor, Fábio Prado, made 8 contos (8:000$000) monthly (Law 3528, October 1936), the highest official municipal monthly wage. A department director received 3 contos and 500 mil-réis (3:500$000), and the lowest remunerated occupation, a servant (servente), was paid 300 mil-réis (300$000) (Act 1146, April 1936). Public officials were considered well paid. In fact, of thirty-one occupations in the DOP municipal chart, twenty-five had wages greater than 1 conto (1:000$000) monthly. According to a 1936 municipal study on the costs and living conditions of workers, a family had to make at least 600 mil-réis (600$000) monthly to survive, and an average worker in private service received between 300 mil-réis (300$000) and 399 mil-réis (399$000) monthly; Samuel Lowrie, “Ascendência das criancas registradas no parque D. Pedro II,” Revista do Arquivo Municipal 39 (September 1937).

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Peixoto-Mehrtens, C. (2010). The Symbolic Construction of a Paulista Urban Identity. In: Urban Space and National Identity in Early Twentieth Century São Paulo, Brazil. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230114036_5

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