This is a richly detailed account of the way the sex industry
works, and one of the few empirical studies that investigates the
off street industry in Britain. The book seeks to advance a greater
knowledge of the social organisation of the sex industry by
uncovering the day-to-day activities of women involved in the
indoor markets. What types of occupational risks do women
experience in work of this kind? How do these hazards affect their
personal lives? A key concern throughout the book is to assess
whether women are passive victims of the circumstances of
prostitution or whether they understand and calculate their
responses to danger. Drawing upon both sociological and
criminological theories, and on detailed research in the city of
Birmingham, the author addresses these questions by estimating the
rationality of those responses and by providing a measure of how
women make sense of different risks. Sex Work: a risky business
describes how women create complex psychological and emotional
techniques to maintain their sanity while selling sex, and goes on
to argue that the indoor sex markets in Britain have a distinct
'occupational culture' with a set of social norms, code of conduct
and moral hierarchies that make it a high regulated workplace
despite its illicit and sometimes illegal nature.
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