Johannesburg's Indian flower sellers: class and circumstance

Abstract

Over the past sixty years the circumstances governing flower selling on the streets of Johannesburg have altered considerably in response to changing regulations and controls imposed by local authorities. One of the effects has been to set in motion the dissolution of the petty production form of flower selling. The nature of the changing flower selling scene is presented and factors that have contributed to and hindered the process of petit-embourgeoisement and proletarianization are examined.