Doing the Business

Entrepreneurship, the Working Class, and Detectives in the East End of London

AvDick Hobbs

Inbunden, Engelska, 1988

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Doing the Business looks at the culture of London's East End and its relationship with the Criminal Investigation Department of the Metropolitan Police. The cultures of both the East End and the CID are examined in terms of their relationship with the market place and the emergent strategies of negotiation, trading, and, most importantly, entrepreneurship.The author breaks new ground in several crucial areas. He asks how well traditional notions of working class culture fit the East End, and argues convincingly that they do not. His model of an entrepreneurial working class culture (a shadow economy) is a departure from the routine 'them and us' picture of class relationships in Britain. He links the working class ethos peculiar to the East End with the occupational culture of detectives in an illuminating analysis of the working identity of plain clothes policing. There is also much of interest and originality in his theories of crime and delinquency, and in his documentation of the history of detective work in London.This is a highly original and at times controversial piece of work that contributes not only to our knowledge of culture and sub-culture, but also to the sociology of policing, and the study of class relations and organizations.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1988-09-01
Mått:144 x 223 x 21 mm
Vikt:465 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Clarendon Press
ISBN:9780198255987
Utmärkelser:Winner of the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize for the best first sociology book by a new author in 1988.

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`This is the best book I've read for a long time ... it is a first-rate example of how the best ethnographic studies can demonstrate the relationships between history, social structure and subjectivity ... Throughout, the already elegant text is enlivened by the colourful and informative stories, analyses and arguments of the (legal and illegal) wheeler dealers themselves ... Doing the Business can be unreservedly recommended to lay readers for its intelligence, verve and penetrating analysis of police work. For the same reasons, of course, the book will be popular with students of criminology, social work, social history and sociology. But to students the book offers much more than a satisfying literary and academic experience - it is excellent value in terms of the wide range of topics it covers ... having run out of superlatives all I can now say is: read it! It's a winner.'Pat Carlen, University of Keele, Centre for Criminology

Innehållsförteckning

A biography of a research project - perusing Plod with a view from the chaps; a natural history of the British police - the contradiction of control; the 1960s - investigation and myth; a natural history of the CID - the 1960s and 1970s - a polarization of policing ideologies; the history of East London - a stroll down Felony Lane; the adolescent entrepreneur - youth, style and cultural inheritance; East End entrepreneurship; recruitment, presentation, and paper - the organizational context of detective entrepreneurship; trading places - symbiotic control and occupational imagery. Postscript - back to the future. Appendix: nostalgia rules - hokey cokey. Bibliography. Index.

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