Teaching ResourceTeaching ResourceSteel furnace in São Paulo. Coffee remained the mainstay of the Brazi lian econ omy until the early 19 60s, but the industrial revolution began in the late Nineteenth century, centered around the city of São Paulo. ln 1890, Brazil was a rural country with only about 10% of the population 1iving in the cities. The large number of immigrants that arrived in the early Twentieth century sought jobs in the rapidly growing cities of Rio de Janeiro and especially São Paulo, where the coffee barons began to invest in manufacturing.Fornalha de aço em São Paulo. O café continuou a ser o suporte principal da economia brasileira até o início da década de 1960, quando a revolução industrial iniciada ao final do século X...