Middle-class drug dealers, Globalisation of white collar work
Thinking Allowed
BBC
4.4 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Middle class drug dealers: Laurie Taylor discusses a study into suburban drug selling amongst well heeled teens in a wealthy suburb of Atlanta, USA. The author, Richard Wright, Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, reveals a world which provides a striking counterpoint to the devastation of the drug war in poor, minority communities. Instead, he found that middle class 'dealing' rarely disrupted conventional career paths or involved legal risks and violence. A British perspective is provided by Richard Hobbs, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex.
Also, white collar jobs which move to the Global South. Shehzad Nadeem, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York, charts the impact on emerging economies of the globalisation of IT and service sector work. Is it producing upward mobility in countries like India?
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Thinking Aloud Podcast from the BBC and for more details in our terms of use and much, |
| 0:06.2 | much more about thinking aloud. Go to right tickets at Waterloo, please, you can |
| 0:26.2 | help me? Good, good. Well, you see what happened was that I was going to Maidstone East on on Saturday, last Saturday. No, Maidstone East on Saturday, last Saturday. |
| 0:34.6 | No, Maidstone East. |
| 0:36.0 | Kent. |
| 0:37.0 | Kent, yes, Kent, yes, Kent. |
| 0:38.6 | Anyway, look, I put my card into the Waterloo machine, |
| 0:42.1 | you know, the ticket machine, and the ticket that came out was to Windsor. |
| 0:46.0 | No Windsor. No, Windsor. No, I couldn't use the ticket. They wouldn't let me through the barrier because |
| 0:51.0 | Blade Stones nowhere near winter what no made stones in |
| 0:56.0 | Kent and winds I don't know we I will I think Windsor I think it's in maidenhead |
| 1:01.7 | isn't it no it's not no not made stone made in head they're different places |
| 1:08.5 | look I'll talk I'll tell you what look I'll I'll ring back later okay okay thanks bye |
| 1:17.2 | yes just one of those thoroughly frustrating telephone conversations with the call |
| 1:21.8 | center worker in India, someone whose |
| 1:24.7 | script doesn't extend to a detailed knowledge of railway stations in the home counties. |
| 1:29.6 | And I've often tried to feel less frustrated, less irritated by trying to imagine a call centre |
| 1:35.3 | workers condition of employment, the manner in which their job might provide a way out of poverty, |
| 1:41.0 | perhaps even the first ring on a, |
| 1:43.4 | ring on a, perhaps a middle-class career ladder. |
| 1:45.6 | But now I can replace such imaginings |
| 1:49.1 | with some detailed evidence. |
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