Pub Date : 2019-09-26DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198845225.003.0012
Kate Bedford
In this part of the book, I add to existing debates about the law, politics, and political economy of gambling by offering a new account of gambling liberalization. I do so by analysing references to bingo in Hansard, the official records of the Westminster Parliament. As Lord McNally suggests, it may seem something of a downer to start out by giving boring politicians centre stage in this way. Hansard tells us almost nothing about the everyday experiences of those who encounter bingo regulation ‘on the ground’. That is a task for subsequent chapters, using different methods. I begin with Hansard because it tells us something else. It helps reveal how elites have understood the game over time, in its own terms and as relating to the broader governance and regulation of risk and welfare....
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Pub Date : 2019-09-26DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198845225.003.0006
Kate Bedford
Chapter 5 shows that lower-level actors within firms have much to teach us about the gendered and classed impacts of regulation. The chapter analyses how staff working in commercial bingo experienced the shift from ‘command and control’ style regulation, underpinning the 1968 Gaming Act, to the current risk-based regime in the 2005 Gambling Act. Seeking to contribute a gendered angle to scholarship on the consequences of regulatory reform for occupational status and autonomy, the chapter examines the impact of self-regulation on commercial bingo hall managers—a mostly male, non-professional group of workers whose claims to status have relied heavily on state licensing procedures. By analysing the changing rules, practices, and feelings involved in personnel licensing within bingo halls, the chapter makes two interlinked claims. First, as the state stepped back from assessing and authorizing employee expertise, managerial authority, status, pay, and working conditions were all reduced. Second, the chapter identifies a classed and gendered desire for a return to command-and-control-style regulation.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-26DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198845225.003.0002
Kate Bedford
Chapter 1 argues that gambling in general, and bingo in particular, provide a valuable entry point for conversations about political economy. Specifically, it shows how bingo offers a distinctive lens on existing debates about gambling and political economy, allowing new questions to be posed. To this end, the chapter engages directly with three reasons the author was given for why not to study bingo: (1) that its player demographics mean that the game is too niche and marginalized to offer generalizable lessons; (2) that it is not really gambling; and (3) that it is dead or dying. The chapter considers each in turn, contending that bingo matters in part because of its distinctive demographics, its self-effacing nature, its awkwardness of fit, and its decades-long decline. Rather than making the game irrelevant, these factors suggest that bingo—no less than casinos, or stock markets—can contribute to new ways of thinking about capitalism.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-26DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198845225.003.0004
Kate Bedford
Chapter 3 shows the transformation that occurred, between 1968 and 1997, in lawmakers’ approaches to bingo and what it represented about the nation. Focusing especially on Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government (1979–90), it identifies three key changes. First, commercial bingo was significantly deregulated, and political debates were refocused on the need to bolster the industry, including by taxing non-commercial operators that were its alleged competitors. Second, political debates about gambling moved away from self-organized mutual aid towards charity. Third, there were increased references to commercial bingo within discussions of welfare and consumer responsibility, and as a result gambling became proof of individual fecklessness rather than national cultural and economic decline. In charting these changes, the chapter makes bingo reforms central to the state’s broader project of welfare state restructuring and better regulation in the 1980s and 1990s. In particular, it emphasizes the state’s alliance with charitable actors to privilege non-participatory forms of gambling (especially lotteries) over gambling run by non-commercial members’ clubs. The chapter also identifies the key role of gender in gambling debates, showing that deregulation rested in significant part on claims that commercial bingo halls provided lonely old women with their only source of company.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-26DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198845225.003.0008
Kate Bedford
Chapter 7 focuses on the new types of bingo authorized by regulators since the 2005 Gambling Act came into effect, in 2007. To better understand the official and unofficial definitions of the game, the chapter centres the dynamic interactions between newly permitted technologies and artefacts, and users (both workers and players). The broader stakes of the seemingly narrow interest in bingo definitions relate to two key debates, about: (1) the centrality of premises concerns to the regulation of gambling technologies; and (2) the key role of user adaptation (including by workers) in reanimating bingo vernaculars. The chapter asks some deceptively simple questions: what makes a bingo premises a bingo premises, or a bingo operator a bingo operator? What is bingo, and how much of it needs to be played in order that a bingo premises can be differentiated from one licensed for other types of gaming? The answers are extremely contested, including by the people who work and play in the shadow of newly created official definitions. In particular, through analysis of a successful regulatory effort to prevent licensed bingo from being allowed in pubs, the chapter shows that employees’ work to re-enable social gambling practices is being overlooked by the state.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-26DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198845225.003.0014
Kate Bedford
The boundaries of bingo, as a game and a place within which that game is played, have been contested for decades: Labour MP Raymond Fletcher was raising the alarm about lax categorization in the early 1960s. What happens when the state tries to define a game like this? What happens when newly authorized variants of bingo, shaped by technologies that standardize its formats and by pro-innovation regulatory ideologies, encounter places within which the game has traditionally been played? What happens when problem gambling and social responsibility measures, designed with other gambling sectors in mind, are rolled out in bingo?...
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Pub Date : 2019-09-26DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198845225.003.0009
Kate Bedford
Chapter 8 explores the role of regulation in shaping the interface between online and land-based bingo. It locates discussion of online bingo within debates about whether regulation by code is replacing the rule of law, and whether virtual life undermines sociality and community, including through its role in monetizing social networks and exploiting users’ participation. The chapter also seeks to add an online component to existing accounts of place competition and gambling—focused mostly on casino resorts—by showing that the where of play remained a crucial element of the UK debate about online gambling. The remainder of the chapter narrows the focus to online bingo regulation, to better flesh out the distinctive lessons it holds for a study of rule-making, game standardization, and technology. It outlines the current regulatory system for online bingo, before turning to the role of users (workers, players, and land-based bingo operators seeking an online presence) in game adaptation. The chapter shows that the agency of workers and players to adapt products and practices varies significantly between online and offline forms of bingo. Because workers have limited connection to players in online bingo games, and the infrastructures upon which the bingo relies allow for so little user adaptation, the capacity to ‘re-playify’ the game is far more restricted, and the designers of the technology have significantly more power. Moreover, software providers are able to capture far more profit from instrumentalizing players’ social ties than is possible for land-based operators. The chapter concludes with a call to revisit the enthusiasm for straightforwardly pluralistic approaches to categorization and definition.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-26DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198845225.003.0005
Kate Bedford
Focused on debates preceding the passing of the Gambling Act 2005, Chapter 4 traces a final set of changes in how gambling was understood to relate to national visions of risk, profit-making, insurance, and welfare in the UK. Under New Labour, commercial gambling was repositioned as a potential regeneration tool, with the state’s role in part to ensure its success in the domestic and global marketplace. This led to a further narrowing of lawmakers’ visions about gambling. The chapter focuses specifically on New Labour’s casino expansion and online gambling liberalization plans, identifying a reorientation of elite gambling debates to focus on globally salient, technologically cutting-edge spectacles, designed to draw outsiders. Everyday forms of play—especially in multi-use environments—became newly problematic for the state, and in some cases they were to be subjected to increased surveillance. The chapter hereby challenges claims that the 2005 Act represented a neo-liberal effort to encourage risk-taking.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-26DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198845225.003.0010
Kate Bedford
Chapter 9 traces the impact, on bingo, of recent laws, policies, and procedures related to problematic gambling, by exploring the risks associated with the game and the perceived vulnerability of its distinctive players. By linking problem gambling studies to critical regulation scholarship, it seeks a deeper understanding of the limits, and risks, of algorithmic approaches to consumer protection. The chapter outlines a novel analytic approach to responsible gambling debates, one that pays attention to workers as well as players, and that centres the nexus between profit-making and risk-monitoring. The chapter then charts the emergence of social responsibility as a regulatory priority within UK gambling in general, and bingo in particular. Companies now use a standardized responsible gambling approach, involving increasingly formalized interactions between staff and players. This standardized approach has intensified reliance on technologies borrowed from electronic gambling machines and online gambling formats to identify, and manage, risky play. These technologies are, in turn, reliant on moving customers to cashless play in order that they can be tracked. The chapter focuses on two key consequences of these changes: their impact on workers, and their impact on cash players. Specifically, it shows that standardized responsible gambling measures have resulted in the responsibilization of staff, and have reshaped the relationship between workers and players. Because cash use helps players to limit spending, account-based play is likely to be of dubious effectiveness as a harm reduction measure, and may even be counterproductive.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-26DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198845225.003.0007
Kate Bedford
Chapter 6 revisits debates about the role of membership in building alternative, non-capitalist forms of collective being. Rather than assuming that the committed member is distinct from the passive, usually feminized consumer, the chapter seeks instead to explore the ways that membership is, or is not, activated in non-commercial and commercial gambling. Using bingo practices as evidence, the chapter probes the blurred boundaries between membership and consumption, exploring how the two are co-constituted. After charting the gendered and racialized membership exclusions in working men’s clubs, the chapter traces how women’s bingo organising labour involves resistance to state membership rules. Mutual aid practices are sustained by this resistance. Finally, the chapter identifies a distinctive sense of membership within commercial bingo, wherein halls become the realm of occupying players—usually older women—who act like they own the place. The chapter thereby seeks to trouble the dichotomy between membership and consumption.
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