Sex work has always attracted policy, public and prurient
interest. Currently, legal frameworks in developed countries range
from prohibition, through partial legalisation to active
regulation. Globalisation has increased women's mobility between
developing and developed countries at the same time as women's
employment opportunities in the developed world are shifting.
Family and intimate relationships are being transformed by changing
demographics, shifting social mores and new intersections between
intimate lives and global markets. Sex work is located at the nexus
of new intimacies, shifting employment patterns and changing global
mobilities.
This volume examines the working lives of contemporary sex
workers; their practices, their labour market conditions and their
engagement with domestic and international regulatory frameworks.
It locates the voices and experiences of workers in Melbourne,
Australia, at the centre of the sexual services industry as they
reflect on brothels and independent escort work, on working
conditions and managers, and on the relationships they form with
clients. It offers a new account of sex work where women's labour
and mobility is understood as central in local and global
imperatives to offer sexual services. It examines how these new
imperatives intersect with, challenge and exceed existing
regulatory frameworks for sex work.
Sex work: labour, mobility and sexual services draws together
the everyday practices of sex workers and the broader global
markets in which workers negotiate employment. In bringing together
these two important intersecting areas, it offers a grounded and
innovative account of sex work which will be of interest to
academics and policy makers concerned with sex work, gender studies
and the sociology of labour.
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