Question

social benefits brought by hawkers

Answer 1

Answer:

For a long time, hawkers have taken it upon themselves to pass on their business to future generations. This has achieved limited success, as younger Singaporeans have received better formal education, which has allowed them to consider more career options.

Rather, we could consider focusing on improving hawker centres in a way that makes the job of being a hawker more senior-friendly and less physically demanding.

This can be done by improving the physical infrastructure and social attitudes towards the job.

Answer 2

Answer:

Explanation:

A hawker is a vendor of merchandise that can be easily transported; the term is roughly synonymous with costermonger or peddler. In most places where the term is used, a hawker sells inexpensive items, handicrafts, or food items. Whether stationary or mobile, hawkers often advertise by loud street cries or chants, and conduct banter with customers, to attract attention and enhance sales.

When accompanied by a demonstration or detailed explanation of the product, the hawker is sometimes referred to as a demonstrator or pitchm

Hawker selling books in bus, Cuttack, Odisha

A hawker selling goat meat in Kabul

The terms peddler and hawker are often used synonymously. Social commentator Henry Mayhew wrote, "Among the more ancient of the trades, then carried on in England, is that of the hawker or pedlar", and he notes, "the hawker dealt, in the old times, more in textile fabrics than in anything else." In several passages of his work, Mayhew categorises hawkers, hucksters, and peddlers as a single group of itinerant salesman, and claims that he is unable to say what distinction was drawn between a hawker and a huckster. Mayhew estimated the number of licensed pedlars in 1861 as 14,038 in England, 2,561 in Scotland, and 624 in Wales.

In many African metropolitan areas, hawkers commonly referred to as vendors are a very usual sight. They sell a wide range of goods such as fish, fruits, vegetables, clothes and books. In suburban areas, they go around announcing themselves from house to house. While in more commercial areas they usually have stands or lay their goods on the ground. In the afternoons you'll find many of them selling commercial goods on the more crowded parts of the cities, while at night they sell juices, tea and snack items. They sell goods at lower prices than shops making them an attractive shopping stop to people of low income