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

by Dick Hobbs

Overview

In this controversial and original study of policing, class relations and organizations, Hobbs illustrates the culture of London's East End and its relationship with the Criminal Investigation Department of the Metropolitan Police. Both the East Enders and the Metropolitan Police are considered in terms of their relationship with the marketplace and the emergent strategies of negotiation, trading, and entrepreneurship.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198255987
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/15/1988
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.69(w) x 8.75(h) x 0.85(d)
Lexile:	1500L (what's this?)

About the Author

University of Durham

Table of Contents

	List of Illustrations	xi
	Map of East End of London	xii
1	A Biography of a Research Project: Perusing Plod with a View from the Chaps	1
2	A Natural History of the British Police: The Contradiction of Control	17
3	The 1960s: Investigation and Myth	46
4	A Natural History of the CID: The 1960s and 1970s--A Polarization of Policing Ideologies	62
5	The History of East London: A Stroll down Felony Lane	84
6	The Adolescent Entrepreneur: Youth, Style and Cultural Inheritance	119
7	East End Entrepreneurship	140
8	Recruitment, Presentation, and Paper: The Organizational Context of Detective Entrepreneurship	183
9	Trading Places--Symbiotic Control and Occupational Imagery	197
	Postscript: Back to the Future	217
Appendix	Nostalgia Rules--Hokey Cokey	229
	Bibliography	235
	Index	251

Editorial Reviews

"One the basis of fieldwork (and life experience) and a tour-de-force revisionist history of policing, Dick Hobbs presents a rich and systematic dramaturgical analysis of a way of life and a style of policing."—American Journal of Sociology

"Everybody has a vision of the East End. It could be a foggy Victorian street filled with Michael Caine soundalikes, jolly Cockneys eating jellied eels and having a good knees up, wide boys and spivs shifting dubiously obtained consumer items down the market....Hobb's vision of the East End absorbs all those ideas and more...a fascinating overall picture of East End culture."—New Statesman and Society

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