A report on dastforooshi (street vending)

Here, "street vending" is dealt with as a form of life among intertwined social groups even subaltern to the contemporary and urban industrial proletariat: 1. The lower inhabitants of the surrounding areas who have agricultural life and livelihood, traditional animal husbandry, and small home or rural or non-industrial workshops ; 2. Lower residents of Tehran or urban centers, who have not benefited from living in these areas; 3. The peripheral labor force, which, due to its youth or being in a position of acceptance of hard work, low status, or filth, becomes a migrant labor force with a marginal labor and income; 4. People who do not have a job, but with the benefit of their class background and having a form of subsistence in their family history, have no choice but to settle down; 5. Those who turn to the second job and enjoy the economic benefits of the form of street vending. The report attempts to use a critical ethnographic approach, based on the author's lived and field experience that contains sensitive concepts, and through a series of in-depth and unstructured interviews with a street vendor, and observation, participation and presence in his field, When this form of life clashes with government sovereignty, urban policy, the order of artificial space, the special construction of social order, and ownership of urban space, it becomes an urban dilemma and social harm, in the words of city managers and professional professionals.