By Janet Foster
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I thought I’ll steer clear of him, but then you get to know him…anythink that I had he’d buy so that he could sell his gear at…police station. Anythink honestly, we’ve been to dart matches before and all our team has had the same shirts on—truck loads went missing. I’ve had it, bleedin’ Alex has had ’em, we’ve all had ’em. You can’t tell me that they’re not bleedin’ rogues. Del argued that although he was always suspicious in Alex’s company, he exhibited many of the same attitudes: I was always wary.
Everyone present in the bar watched this exchange. ’ The operation of the informal economy Now that I have outlined some of the ways in which business was conducted in the Grafton, I would like to discuss a number of issues where previous accounts of the hidden economy conflict with my own observations. First the label ‘hidden’ in itself suggests that these practices are actively concealed. Whilst at an official level, particularly in an occupational setting, this may be true, one of the characteristics of ‘fiddling’ at work is that management are often aware of and accept these practices (cf Dalton 1959).
Whilst people say that getting caught or being incarcerated has made a difference and changed their behaviour (arguing that they have a greater sense of worth and take fewer risks) 52 THE GRAFTON ARMS their behaviour does not always bear this out. What does change, however, is their ability to present a more adequate and convincing public self. Szasz (1973) was undoubtedly correct in his estimation that ‘men are often more interested in better justifying themselves than behaving themselves’. Faced with official sanctions and having been labelled deviant, the offender must explain his behaviour in a language which his listener can understand.