Sidewalk / Mitchell Duneier ; with photographs by Ovie Carter ; and an afterword by Hakim Hasan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duneier, Mitchell, author.

Contributor:

Carter, Ovie, photographer (expression).

Hasan, Hakim, writer of afterword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Street vendors--New York (State)--New York.

Street vendors.

Street vendors--United States.

Tramps--New York (State)--New York.

Tramps.

Tramps--United States.

United States.

City and town life--New York (State)--New York.

City and town life.

New York (State)--New York.

City and town life--United States.

Commerce.

New York.

Medical Subjects:

Commerce.

New York.

Physical Description:

383 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York [New York] : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

Summary:

Presents the lives of poor African-American men who make their subsistence wages by selling used goods on the streets of Greenwich Village in New York; and discusses how they interact with passing pedestrians, police officers, and each other.

Contents:

Introduction

The informal life of the sidewalk

New uses of sidewalks

The limits of informal social control

Regulating the people who work the streets

The construction of decency.

Notes:

"Published in 1999 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-379).

ISBN:

0374527253

9780374527259

0374263558

9780374263553

0374526141

9780374526146

OCLC:

46425699