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Winner, Warren Dean Memorial Prize, Conference on Latin American
History (CLAH), 2018 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.
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