Mendigos, moleques e vadios na Bahia do século XIX

"Social history of poverty in 19th-century Salvador looks at the urban geography and calendar of poverty, survival strategies of the poor, and state policies. The tendency over time was to increasingly criminalize poverty and unemployment, to repress independent activities such as begging, and, as slavery collapsed, to attempt to force the poor into regular work under elite/state control"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.