Misère et grandeur d’un métier. Les crieurs de journaux dans l’Espagne contemporaine
Historically, newspaper hawkers have played a prominent role in the development of the press, and yet their work has been hard, badly-paid and held in very low social esteem. In a country like Spain, the misery of this occupation was long compounded by the aversion of the Catholic Church, which view...
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| Language: | Spanish |
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Casa de Velázquez
2011-11-01
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| Series: | Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/mcv/4116 |
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| Summary: | Historically, newspaper hawkers have played a prominent role in the development of the press, and yet their work has been hard, badly-paid and held in very low social esteem. In a country like Spain, the misery of this occupation was long compounded by the aversion of the Catholic Church, which viewed hawkers, and mass-circulation press in general, as enemies to be combated. For their part, government authorities feared the consequences of so apparently innocuous an activity as hawking a newspaper, conscious as they were of the ease with which it could channel the expression of dissidence or propitiate public disorder. |
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| ISSN: | 0076-230X 2173-1306 |