How did street sellers fit into this picture

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In Stephen Jankiewicz "A Dangerous Class: The Street Sellers of 19th-Century London" (2012) writes, 'Streets were not blank, empty voids between banks, shops, workshops, and factories-but a space where the battle over political authority and communal identity was being fought every day'. How did street sellers fit into this picture? How did the environment of the city factor into the criminalization of vagrants and street sellers?

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