Hobbs, Dick, Hadfield, Philip (Author), Lister, Stuart (Author)
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Total delivery time:
within 10 business days
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Format:
Paperback, 323pp.
Date of publication:
Sep 01 2005
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-13:
9780199288007
Dimensions:
9.35
cm. (length) X
7.82
cm. (width) X
1.85
cm. (thickness)
Weight:
513
grams
About the Book
This book is the first attempt to understand Britain's night-time economy, the violence that pervades it, and the bouncers whose job it is to prevent it. Using ethnography, participant observation and extensive interviews with all the main players, this controversial book charts the emergence
of the bouncer as one of the most graphic symbols in the iconography of post-industrial Britain. [Edit review] [Delete review]
of the bouncer as one of the most graphic symbols in the iconography of post-industrial Britain. [Edit review] [Delete review]
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