increasingly relied on formal firms to acquire their goods and services (see Harding and Jenkins, 1989), this does not mean that other ways of receiving goods and providing services have ceased to exist. One has only to consider the prevalence of the car-boot sale (e.g. Crewe and Gregson, 1998; Gregson and Crewe, 1994, 1997a, 1997b, 1998; Gregson et al., 1997) and the wealth of informal provision in services such as child rearing (e.g. Windebank, 1996) and elder care (e.g. OPCS, 1992) to recognise that…
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