Migration and the Making of Industrial São PauloPublished in 2008 and winner of the 2011 Thomas E. Skidmore Prize, Paulo Fontes's Migration and the Making of Industrial So Paulo is a detailed social history of So Paulo's extraordinary urban and industrial expansion. Fontes focuses on those migrants who settled in the suburb of So Miguel Paulista, which grew from 7,000 residents in the 1940s to over 140,000 two decades later. Reconstructing these migrants' everyday lives within a broad social