Bouncers: Violence and Governance in the Night-Time Economy

by Stuart Lister, Dick Hobbs, Philip Hadfield

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199252246
• ISBN13: 9780199252244
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 8.7"