Sex Work: Labour, Mobility and Sexual Services

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. 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. Drawing on extensive interviews with sex workers and regulators in the sexual services industry, the book locates contemporary sex work within broader social patterns of global mobility, family change, and work intensification, arguing that new social and labour market conditions are changing both the practices and meanings of sex work for workers, clients and societies more generally.