Bouncers Violence and Governance in the Night-time Economy [Paperback]

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.

1. Let the Good Times Roll: Liminality and the Night time Economy
2. After-Dark 'Fun' and Control in the Industrial City
3. Post-Industrial Manchester: From Cotton to Carlsberg
4. Tommy Smiths Story: Four Decades On The Door
5. Russ's Bar: A Bouncers Tale
6. A Word At The Door: Bouncers On Their Work.
7. Dogs That Pass In The Night: Training Bouncers
8. Badging Up: Registering Bouncers
9. Market Force: Class, Violence and Liminal Business on the Night- Time Frontier
10. Conclusion.

Dick Hobbsis Professor of Sociology at the University of Durham. He has published widely on various aspects of criminal cultures, policing, research methods, professional and organised crime, and the night-time economy. He has published edited collections of papers on ethnographic research, and professional crime, and his two single authored books (both published with OUP) are Doing the Business (1988) which won the Abrams Prize, and Bad Business (1995). He was, with Steve Hall, the co-grant holder for the ESRC Bouncers project.
Philip Hadfieldis currently an ESRC funded postgraduate student at the University of Durham. He recently graduated from the Universities of Keele and Cambridge, has published widely on regulatory and licensing aspects of the night-time economy and works part time as a DJ.
Stuart Listeris a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds. He is a member of the Home office Alcohol and Crime Steering Group, and has published on various aspects of the night-time economy with particular referlÓf