用戶:Shangkuanlc/peddler

A peddler woman in 內沙布爾.
De Marskramer, by 耶羅尼米斯·博斯, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen英語Museum Boijmans van Beuningen.

A peddler, in 英國英語 pedlar, also known as a canvasser, cheapjack, monger, higler or solicitor (with negative connotations since the 16th century), is a 旅行 vendor英語vendor of 商品. In England, the term was mostly used for travellers 小販 goods in the countryside to small towns and villages; they might also be called tinker英語tinkers or gypsies英語Names of the Romani people#Gypsy. In London more specific terms were used, such as costermonger英語costermonger. There has long been a suspicion of dishonest or petty criminal activity associated with pedlars and travellers.[1][2]

History

 
比利時 milk peddlers, c. 1890-1900.
 
A 摩洛哥 peddler in 切里亞萊, 意大利.
 
Tibet people's peddler (尼泊爾).
 
越南, 胡志明市 (胡志明市).

The origin of the word, known in English since 1225, is unknown, but it might come from French pied, Latin pes, pedis "foot", referring to a petty trader travelling on foot.

Peddlers usually travelled on foot, carrying their wares, or by means of a person- or animal-drawn cart or wagon英語wagon (making the peddler a 小販).

Modern peddlers may use motorized vehicles to transport themselves and their commodities. Typically, they operate door-to-door英語door-to-door or at organized events such as fair英語fairs.

In many economies this work was often left to nomadic minorities, such as 羅姆人, travellers英語Itinerant groups in Europe, or Yeniche英語Yeniche (people), offering a varied assortment of goods and services, both evergreens and (notoriously suspicious) novelties. Peddlers sometimes doubled as 表演藝術, 替代醫學, or fortune-tellers英語fortune-telling.

While peddlers had a significant role in supplying isolated populations even with fairly basic and diverse goods such as pots and pans, horses, and news, their market share has in modern times been drastically reduced as increasing 人口密度 and 購買力 encouraged sedentary英語Sedentism, even specialized 推銷員 points, while modern 運輸, mail order英語mail order, 製冷 and other 技術 allow even 農村 clients alternative channels of purchase.

Tinware was manufactured in Berlin, Connecticut英語Berlin, Connecticut, as early as 1770, and tin, steel and iron goods were peddled from Connecticut through the North American colonies- the Connecticut clock maker and clock peddler was the 18th century embodiment of Yankee ingenuity.

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In the 美國, the travelling salesman became a stock character in countless jokes. Such jokes are typically bawdy, and usually feature small town rubes, farmers and other country folk, and frequently another stock character, the farmer's daughter英語Farmer's daughter (character).

India has special laws enacted, by the efforts of planners which give mongers higher rights as compared to other businessmen. For example, mongers have a right of way over motorized vehicles.

In the modern economy a new breed of peddler, generally encouraged to dress respectably to inspire confidence with the general public, has been sent into the field as an aggressive form of 直效營銷 by companies pushing their specific products, sometimes to help launch novelties, sometimes on a permanent basis. In a few cases this has even been used as the core of a business.

Legislation and regulation

In Britain, peddling is still governed by the Pedlars Act of 1871, which provides for a "pedlar's certificate". Application is usually made to the police. In the late 20th century, the use of such certificates became rare as other civic legislation including the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982英語Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 and the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 for England & Wales introduced a street trader's licence. As of 2008 the pedlar's certificates remain legal and in use, although several local councils have sought to rid their area of peddlers by way of local bylaw or enforcement mechanisms such as making them apply for a street trader's licence.

Types and names

 
A typical door-to-door vendor in rural 漳浦縣, 福建省, China.

Literal compounds formed from these synonyms are:

Metaphoric compounds, since the 16th century mostly pejorative, formed from these synonyms are:

Names, most archaic, of product- or industry-specific types of peddlers include:

Names, some pejorative, of other sub- or supertypes or close relatives of peddlers include:

Although there are basic similarities between the activities in the 舊大陸 and the 新大陸 there are also significant differences. In Britain the word was more specific to an individual selling small items of household goods from door to door. It was not usually applied to 羅姆人.

 
Sbitenshchik英語Sbitenshchik and Khodebshchik, a "lubok英語lubok print" (19th century).
  • In Russia a Khodebshchik (俄語:ходебщик) was a person carrying a 看板 advertising a product or service, a street hawker or peddler of wares, or house-to-house salesman in the 16th–19th centuries.

In literature

The Cheap Jack type appears often in 19th century literature. The most famous example is probably Charles Dickens' ‟Doctor Marigold‟. A short story it was originally written for one of his Christmas editions of 'All the Year Round'. In collected editions of Dickens' works, it appears in the volume ‟Christmas Stories‟.

Sources

  1. ^ Mayhew, Henry 1851–1861. London Labour and the London Poor. Researched and written, variously, with J. Binny, B. Hemyng and A. Halliday.
  2. ^ Chesney, Kellow 1970. The Victorian Underworld. Penguin. Recounts criminal and quasi-criminal activity in countryside and city.

References

  •   本條目包含來自公有領域出版物的文本: Chisholm, Hugh (編). Encyclopædia Britannica (第11版). London: Cambridge University Press. 1911. 
  • Dolan, J.R. (1964), Yankee Peddlers of Early America.
  • Spufford, M. (1981), Small Books and Pleasant Histories: Popular Fiction and its Readership in seventeenth Century England.
  • Spufford, M. (1984), The Great Reclothing of Rural England: Petty Chapmen and their Wares in the Seventeenth Century.
  • Wright, R.L. (1927), Hawkers and Walkers in Early America.
  • Station Chief at Etymonline.com
  • Peddler at Etymonline.com


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