A Dangerous Class: The Street Sellers of Nineteenth-Century London

While the social research of Henry Mayhew drew attention to the street seiiers of London in the nineteenth century, Mayheui only hinted at the full scope of the threat these sellers posed to Victorian capitalism and bourgeois society. Street seüing was taken up iry many different types of workers who had become unemployed or frustrated with their previous empbyment. Distinguished by the pe…