How Coffee Changed Brazil's Society
An abundant amount of coffee grew in Brazil, resulting in a drastic change in their society. As the coffee industry grew, it attracted millions of immigrants to the southeast and transformed São Paulo, one of Brazil's largest coffee regions, from a small town to the largest industrial center in the developing world. The city had about 30,000 inhabitants in the 1850s, this number grew from 70,000 in 1890 to 240,000 in 1900 ("Coffee Production in Brazil"). With one million inhabitants in the 1930s São Paulo was the country's most populous city and most important industrial center ("Coffee Production in Brazil").