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Flexible Workers - Labour, Regulation and the Political Economy of the Stripping Industry (Paperback)
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Flexible Workers - Labour, Regulation and the Political Economy of the Stripping Industry (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
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Striptease and other types of erotic dance increasingly make up a
large, lucrative and visible part of the sex industries in the
United Kingdom and 'lap dancing' has become the focus of many
important contemporary debates about gender, work and sexuality.
This new book from Teela Sanders and Kate Hardy moves away from the
more traditional focus on the relations between dancers and
customers, to a focus on regulation and the working conditions
experienced by those working in stripping work. Drawing on
interviews, survey data and participant observation with dancers,
managers, regulators and other staff, Sanders and Hardy present the
first ever nationwide study of the stripping industry and the
working lives of those within it. The book explores the reasons for
the expansion of the industry in the United Kingdom and the
experiences, opinions and perspectives of those that produce and
shape it. Placing dancers' voices centre stage, it examines the
wider political economy which shapes dancers' engagement in
employment in the stripping industry, pointing towards the wider
conditions of the labour market and growing privatisation of Higher
Education as explanatory factors for its labour supply. In
suggesting a new feminist politics of stripping, dancers voice
their own political awareness of erotic dance and an intersectional
analysis of solidarity with workers in the stripping industry is
foregrounded. Presenting a 360 degree view of the industry, this
ground-breaking study presents systematic evidence for the first
time on this area of social life which has become central as a
strategy of survival, class mobility and urban accumulation. It
will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students across the
fields of criminology, sociology, geography, labour studies and
gender studies, as well as regulators, activists and even dancers
themselves.
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