Brazil Industrial Company began the project of building a new textile factory in the province of Rio de Janeiro in the second half of the nineteenth century. Built at the foot of the Serra do Mar, in the region known as Vale do Paraíba, the factory was the largest project of the textile industry of the Brazilian Empire. This dissertation seeks to track the way in which they settled in the town, between the late nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century, networks paternalistic relationship that marked the way in which workers handled the direction of the factory - in a tense and subtle negotiation through which sought possible spaces of autonomy and freedom. To do so, focuses on the everyday elements that marked the location of workers - as the feast of Our Lady of Conception, the formation of a band music, the theater group Servos de Thalma, the celebration of carnival and football club Paracambi F. C..