The egg stall

Main Artwork
Tap to zoom

The egg stall

The small trader's everyday effort

By Cristiano Vassalli

23mm f/3.2 1/150s ISO 200
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix X100
Date: 2017-09-29
Worldwide, self-employed workers and small traders make up 47% of the global workforce, and fully three-quarters of them are in vulnerable employment — without pension, sickness or injury cover.
The small trader is neither worker nor bourgeois: he is the intermediate figure that capitalism drags along as its own shadow, for at least two centuries.