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Doing the business : entrepreneurship, the working class, and detectives in the East End of London

Dick Hobbs
An examination of the culture of London's East End and its relationship with the Criminal Investigation Department of the Metropolitan Police, concentrating on entrepreneurship, crime and delinquency, and the history of detective work in London.
Print Book, English, 1988
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, Oxford [England], New York, 1988
xiii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9780198255987, 0198255985
17621830
A biography of a research project - perusing Plod with a view from the chaps; a natural history of the British police - the contradiction of control; the 1960s - investigation and myth; a natural history of the CID - the 1960s and 1970s - a polarization of policing ideologies; the history of East London - a stroll down Felony Lane; the adolescent entrepreneur - youth, style and cultural inheritance; East End entrepreneurship; recruitment, presentation, and paper - the organizational context of detective entrepreneurship; trading places - symbiotic control and occupational imagery. Postscript - back to the future. Appendix: nostalgia rules - hokey cokey. Bibliography. Index.