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

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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 performative qualities of their work as well as by the sale of inexpensive commodities to the
poor, street sellers provide a distinctive example of class conflict in London. Such sellers were frequently associated with Chartism and other radical agitation, and they often took on roles as
orators or social commentators at public meetings. Many elements of their subversive potential were virtuaüy inherent to their class. Whether in their links to a precarious commons, their commitment
to socialization amidst economic transactions, or their struggle for space, on the streets, these sellers posed a continual threat to the discipline, values, and rhythms of the larger capitalist
economy. They provided an alterruxtive model of social and economic life that was, in many ways,
immediately visible to the public and which took on, over the course of the century, a more
respected status. Street sellers hamessed public sympathy, established an important presence amid
the working class, and expressed a unique vision of freedom and solidanty.

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Judul Seri

Joumal of Social History

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: Oxford University Press., 2012

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Joumal of Social History vol. 46 no. 2 (2012), pp. 391-415

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