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| Author: | Monaghan, L. F. |
| Title: | Regulating 'unruly' bodies: work tasks, conflict and violence in Britain's night-time economy |
| Journal: | British Journal of Sociology
2002 : SEP, VOL. 53:3, p. 403-430 |
| Index terms: | SOCIOLOGY PRIVATE SECTOR RISK VIOLENCE |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Security work in urban licensed premises is a risky occupation in Britain's fast expanding liminal night-time economy. Sociologically, little is known about this masculinist work, including those embodied strategies used by doorstaff or 'bouncers' to regulate 'unruly' bodies in and around commercial space. Using participant observational data generated in south-west Britain, this paper describes how the door supervisors' routine work tasks (largely comprising requests and demands) provide the conditions of possibility for hierarchical conflict and (near) violence between themselves and (potential) customers inside and at the entrances to licensed premises. |
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