Title Street occupations : urban vending in Rio de Janeiro, 1850/1925 / Patricia Acerbi

Edition First edition Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017 ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 203 pages) Contents Between slavery and freedom -- A policed workplace -- Inventing a new street commerce -- A detriment to the law -- An honest occupation -- Vendors and city associate Summary Street vending has supplied the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro with basic goods for several centuries. Once the province of African slaves and free blacks, street commerce became a site of expanded (mostly European) immigrant participation and shifting state regulations during the transition from enslaved to free labor and into the early post-abolition period. Street Occupations investigates how street vendors and state authorities negotiated this transition, during which vendors sought greater freedom to engage in commerce and authorities imposed new regulations in the name of modernity and progress. Examining ganhador (street worker) licenses, newspaper reports, and detention and court records, and considering the emergence of a protective association for vendors, Patricia Acerbi reveals that street sellers were not marginal urban dwellers in Rio but active participants in a debate over citizenship. In their struggles to sell freely throughout the Brazilian capital, vendors asserted their citizenship as urban participants with rights to the city and to the freedom of commerce. In tracing how vendors resisted efforts to police and repress their activities, Acerbi demonstrates the persistence of street commerce and vendors' tireless activity in the city, which the law eventually accommodated through municipal street commerce regulation passed in 1924.A focused history of a crucial era of transition in Brazil, Street Occupations offers important new perspectives on patron-client relations, slavery and abolition, policing, the use of public space, the practice of free labor, the meaning of citizenship, and the formality and informality of work Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Street vendors -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- History -- 19th century Street vendors -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- History -- 20th century Street vendors -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- Social conditions Peddling -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- History -- 19th century Peddling -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- History -- 20th century Slavery -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- History Urban policy -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Commerce. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Marketing -- General. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Sales & Selling -- General. HISTORY / Latin America / South America Peddling Slavery Street vendors Urban policy Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781477313572 1477313575 9781477313589 1477313583

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