Transformations of Labour through the Lens of Sex Work

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This volume engages with the question of how labour is transforming under late capitalism, and what insights the study of sex work offers into these transformations.

This volume engages with the question of how labour is transforming under late capitalism, and what insights the study of sex work offers into these transformations.

Presenting case studies from the Global North, this book situates sex work within the frameworks of neoliberal governance, digitalization, platformization, and gig economy to examine how economic relations, labour practices, and activism are changing under these conditions. It demonstrates that sex work offers a powerful lens through which to understand the contradictions of contemporary labour regimes: autonomy bound up with precarity, visibility with surveillance, and agency with algorithmic control. The book highlights the mobility and agency of labouring subjectivities, showing how resistance often emerges through strategic engagement with the very structures produced by neoliberalism. While affirming the importance of legal recognition of sex work, the book contends that this alone is insufficient to disrupt the broader systems of exclusion and inequality experienced by sex workers and embedded in late capitalist economies.

This book will be of interest to scholars and advanced readers engaged in debates on labour, sexuality, and political economy. It is particularly relevant to those working in critical labour studies, feminist theory, sociology, and socio-legal research, as well as to policymakers and activists concerned with labour rights and social justice.

Chapter 5 and the Introduction chapter of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Introduction: Charting Precarity, Agency, and Politics of Sex Work; PART I: The digital reconfiguration of sex work under neoliberalism; 1. Webcamming: Where Digital Labour Meets Smooth Capital; 2. Platform Sex Work and Workplace Self-Help Literature: Discourses of Authenticity and Individualism; 3. A Peek Behind the Veil of the Intermediary Status of Porn Platforms: The Atypical Nature of Porn Content Creators’ Employment in the UK; 4. Unveiling Stigma in the Digital Age: Exploring Attitudinal Differences in Perceptions of the Exchange of Sexual Services for Payment in the United States; PART II: Quality of work in the gig economy; 5. Ambivalences of Precarity: Sex Workers’ Assessments of Quality of Work in Slovenia’s Sex Industry; 6. Stigmatized (M)Others: Analysing the Navigation of Sex Work and Mothering in Canada Through an Antiwork Lens; PART III: The politics of resistance and infrastructures of solidarities; 7. Sex Work, Post-Socialist Precarity and Civil Society: Shifting Frames of Recognition of Sex Work in Poland after 1989; 8. Playing with the Law: The Greek Sex Workers’ Movement’s Struggle for Recognition, State Feminisms, and Work under Neoliberalism; 9. Building Social Unionism: Sex Workers’ Struggles and Their Alliances in Spain