Bingo CapitalismPub Date : 2019-09-26DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198845225.003.0013
Kate Bedford
{"title":"Introduction to Part III","authors":"Kate Bedford","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198845225.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198845225.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"In Part II of the book I turned to the Hansard archive on bingo—a regrettably untapped scholarly source—to understand how lawmakers saw gambling within national visions of welfare, risk, and insurance. In the remainder of the book (Parts III and IV), I move on to explore how gambling regulation actually works—or fails to work—in practice. I am interested in how regulation feels; how it distributes benefits across gambling sectors; how it both shapes and reflects social relations (including class and gender relations); and how it has sometimes unintended material consequences....","PeriodicalId":346655,"journal":{"name":"Bingo Capitalism","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132538061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bingo CapitalismPub Date : 2019-09-26DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198845225.003.0003
Kate Bedford
{"title":"Eyes Down","authors":"Kate Bedford","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198845225.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198845225.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Using legislation, case law, and official records (including Hansard), Chapter 2 outlines the early history of state intervention into bingo in England and Wales. The chapter traces the gradual liberalization of restrictions on small-scale gambling, and the subsequent backlash against bingo in the 1960s. It also tells a new story about gambling regulation and political economy. In particular, it excavates the key role of mutual aid to elite debates about the proper place of gambling in national life. Although many authors have argued that disavowal of gambling helped legitimize the forms of collective insurance developed by early friendly societies and similar associations, the chapter shows that gambling played a key role—as entertainment and mutual aid—within working men’s clubs, and that it was promoted by the state. This mutual aid dimension of gambling was heavily conflicted in gendered terms. Lawmakers were lobbied by bingo-organizing men, with women’s interests at least one step removed from Hansard. Unequal gender roles were hereby woven into dominant understandings of small-scale gambling.","PeriodicalId":346655,"journal":{"name":"Bingo Capitalism","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125890034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}