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Thinking Allowed: The UK strip and lap-dancing industry; blue jeans

31/10/2012

The UK strip and lap-dancing industry; blue jeans

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, The UK strip and lap-dancing industry; blue jeans

The strip industry - why is it growing? Also, the cultural meaning of '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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