Para quando o calo aperta – os trabalhadores-policiais do Corpo Policial Permanente de São Paulo no final do Império

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.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.Neste artigo pretendo analisar o Corpo Policial Permanente de São Paulo no final do Império como uma alternativa de ocupação para uma importante parcela da população pobre, formada principalmente de homens, brasileiros e não-brancos. O período em questão marca a crise do regime escravista, o início da chegada maciça de imigrantes e a transferência das áreas de fronteira agrícola para o Oeste da província