This article turns on the importance of the small coffee production in the coffee complex economy between 1890 and 1914. We argue here the relations of work, the forms of financing and the way as the small coffee production inserts itself in this universe. We use as priority sources the employment contracts that involved the formation and/or the treatment of coffee trees and the Writes of mortgage debts, both recorded in Notarial Books, documents not used by historiography in a systematical way. We turn our look for a region marked predominantly for small and middle producing farms of coffee, observing the dynamics of accumulation in a period of expansion and crisis of the coffee economy.
Coffee Economy; Accumulation; Work
