Vila Maria Zélia

This guide to Vila Maria Zelia in Sao Paulo follows the workers' village that jute magnate Jorge Street built for his factory hands in the nineteen-tens, naming it for a daughter who never saw it finished. You'll hear about the subsidized grocery and free creche that kept nearly two thousand five hundred workers fed, and the terms quietly attached to that generosity. Listen for the details of daily life inside the row houses as you walk the street where the grocery line once formed.