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Thinking Allowed: Middle-class drug dealers, Globalisation of white collar work

15/07/2015

Middle-class drug dealers, Globalisation of white collar work

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Laurie Taylor discusses a study into the selling of drugs among teens in suburban America.

Laurie Taylor discusses a study into the selling of drugs among teens in suburban America. Also, white collar jobs that move to the global south.

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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