Cheap Street - London''s Street Markets and the Cultures of Informality, C.1850-1939

From around 1850, London's street markets grew in number and scale, giving working-class Londoners a site for shopping, entertainment and sociability. Cheap Street is the first major study of this subject, analysing the street markets as a component of London's lively informal economy, and providing new insights into urban and consumer geographies.

List of contents

Introduction
1. What is a street market?
2. Things
3. Streets
4. People
5. Street markets, informality and the performance of London
Conclusion
Select bibliography
Index

About the author

Victoria Kelley is Reader in Design and Material Culture History at University for the Creative Arts, and teaches in the School of Fashion and Textile Design, Central Saint Saint Martins College of Art and Design

Summary

From around 1850, London’s street markets grew in number and scale, giving working-class Londoners a site for shopping, entertainment and sociability. Cheap Street is the first major study of this subject, analysing the street markets as a component of London’s lively informal economy, and providing new insights into urban and consumer geographies. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Victoria Kelley, Kelley Victoria, Kelley Victoria Victoria
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780719099229
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9922-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; London, Greater London, History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), Economic history, British & Irish history, European history: medieval period, middle ages