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Author Hobbs, Dick, 1951- author

Title Doing the business : entrepreneurship, the working class, and detectives in the East End of London / Dick Hobbs
Published Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989
©1988
©1988

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 W'PONDS  305.509421 Hob/Dtb  AVAILABLE
Description 255 pages ; 20 cm
Contents 1. A biography of a research project: rerusing Plod with a view from the chaps -- 2. A natural history of the British Police: the contradiction of control -- 3. The 1960s: investigation and myth -- 4. A natural history of the CID: the 1960s and 1970s - a polarization of policing idelogies -- 5. The history of East London: a strol down Felony Lane -- 6. The adolescent entrepreneur: youth, style and cultural inheritance -- 7. East End entrepreneurship -- 8. Recruitment, presentation, and paper: the organizational context of detective entrepreneurship -- 9. Trading places - symbiotic control and occupational imagery -- Postscript: back to the future -- Appendix: Nostalgia rules - Hokey Cokey
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 235-250
Subject Social classes -- England -- London.
Entrepreneurship -- England -- London.
Working class -- England -- London.
Detectives -- England -- London -- Social conditions.
Criminology -- England -- London.
SUBJECT East End (London, England) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96042494
ISBN 0192852094 (paperback)