An Agency of Their Own
Title | An Agency of Their Own PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory Gall |
Publisher | John Hunt Publishing |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 2012-07-27 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1780994885 |
This book concerns the projects and processes of sex worker unionisation and more widely forms of sex worker self-interest representation. Since the late 1980s, sex workers have unionised themselves as collective associations of workers in their worksites in many countries. The term ‘sex workers’, chosen by sex workers themselves, is a generic one covering all those who sell sexual services and comprises prostitutes, exotic dancers, porn actors and sex chat line workers. ,
Sex Worker Union Organising
Title | Sex Worker Union Organising PDF eBook |
Author | Gregor Gall |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2006-07-11 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0230502482 |
This is the first study of the emerging phenomenon of sex workers, asserting that they are entitled to workers' rights. Drawing on examples from Australia, Britain, Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, New Zealand and the USA the book analyzes the contexts for this struggle and the opportunities and challenges facing these unionization projects.
Sex Worker Unionization
Title | Sex Worker Unionization PDF eBook |
Author | G. Gall |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2016-04-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1137320141 |
Sex Worker Unionisation examines the challenges and opportunities offered by unionisation for Sex Workers. Exploring unionisation projects undertaken by Sex Workers in most major economies, this ground-breaking study shows how sex-workers have collectively sought to control and organise their work and working lives by co-determining the wage-effort with their de facto employers. It highlights the range of significant obstacles that have impeded their progress, including owner hostility, state regulation and the sway of radical feminism that is present in many unions. Outlining a more efficacious model for sex worker unionisation based upon combining occupation unionism and social movement unionism, this pioneering and controversial new book offers an important study of business organization in a unique industry.
Sex Work Now
Title | Sex Work Now PDF eBook |
Author | Rosie Campbell |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2013-05-13 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1134044100 |
Sex Work Now provides an authoritative overview of female sex work and policy in the UK, and addresses a number of key contemporary issues and debates. These include sex worker unionization, migrant sex work and trafficking, communities and sex work, male clients of sex workers, the policing of prostitution, zoning of street sex work, young people and sexual exploitation, drug use and sex work, exiting, violence and sex work. Throughout the book is shaped by the lives and experiences of sex workers themselves drawing on applied, policy or participatory action research. This book approaches the subject from an interdisciplinary perspective, cutting across conventional boundaries of sociology, criminology, politics and social policy. Contributors to the book include academics, researchers, practitioners and activists who are among the leading commentators on prostitution in the UK. provides overview of sex work in UK considers impact of recent legislation and policy, especially Sex Offences Act 2003 focus on lives and experiences of sex workers themselves
Sex Worker Unionization
Title | Sex Worker Unionization PDF eBook |
Author | Gregor Gall |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781137320155 |
Organising Sex Workers
Title | Organising Sex Workers PDF eBook |
Author | Labour Research Department |
Publisher | |
Pages | 4 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Prostitutes |
ISBN |
The Sex of Class
Title | The Sex of Class PDF eBook |
Author | Dorothy Sue Cobble |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2007-03-15 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780801489433 |
Compilation of essays on women's inequalities, unions and sexual politics, family policies, and organising women's work in the United States. Focuses on the feminisation of work and workers, and class injustice. Argues that the growth of collective movements is necessary in order to improve the lot of working women, for example through local-global connections among female immigrant workers and the representation of informal workers.