The UK strip and lap-dancing industry; blue jeans
The strip and lap-dancing industry - Laurie Taylor asks why such clubs have spread across our city centres. Also, the ubiquity and meaning of 'blue jeans'.
Growth of the strip clubs - Why has erotic dance and stripping become a staple of the night time economy in the UK? Kate Hardy tells Laurie Taylor why her research suggests that the proliferation of these clubs has little to do with the demands of male customers. Instead, it's a by product of the economics of an industry which maintains its profits, even during a recession, by passing the financial risks on to its workers. Also, the anthropologist, Daniel Miller asks what the ubiquity of blue jeans tells us about our individual and social lives. He's joined by the sociologist, Sophie Woodward.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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The 鈥榠nternal economics鈥� of lap-dancing clubs
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Dr Kate Hardy
Research in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Leeds
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Teela Sanders, Kate Hardy
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2012.01422.x
The British Journal of Sociology
Volume 63, Issue 3, pages 513鈥�532, September 2012
Daniel Miller
Professor of Material Culture, Department of Anthropology, University College London
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Blue Jeans: The Art of the Ordinary
Daniel Miller and Sophie Woodward (Authors)
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN-10: 0520272196
ISBN-13: 978-0520272194听
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Public lecture: Consumption and the Philosophy of Denim
Speaker: Professor Daniel Miller
Date: Wednesday 31 October 2012
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London
WC2A 2AE
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This event is free and open to all with no ticket required.
Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
For any queries email events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043
Dr Sophie Woodward
Lecturer in Sociology, University of Manchester and cofounder (with Daniel Miller) of the interdisciplinary network the Global Denim Project
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Blue Jeans: The Art of the OrdinaryDaniel Miller and Sophie Woodward (Authors)
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN-10: 0520272196
ISBN-13: 978-0520272194
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