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Article: 'We all have one': Exit plans as a professional strategy in sex work
Title | 'We all have one': Exit plans as a professional strategy in sex work |
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Authors | |
Keywords | employment transitions exit plans exiting sex work |
Issue Date | 2017 |
Publisher | Sage Publications Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://wes.sagepub.com |
Citation | Work, Employment & Society, 2017, v. 31 n. 5, p. 748-763 How to Cite? |
Abstract | The idea of ‘exiting’ the sex industry plays a powerful symbolic role in the feminist debates around the morality, legitimacy and regulation of sex work. Drawing on interviews with 39 women sex workers in Australia and Canada, we explore three key contrasts between dominant narratives and interventions that frame ‘exiting’ as escape from trauma or exploitation, and sex workers’ assessments of ‘exiting’ as a personal or professional strategy. First, we explore sex workers’ perceptions of sex work as temporary work. Second, we analyse the symbiosis between exit plans and current work practices. Third, we examine workers’ assessment of the value of ‘exiting’ sex work in the context of changing market forces within the sex industry, the ‘square’ labour market (or non-sex work sectors) and exiting interventions (i.e. programs to assist workers in leaving sex work). |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/229454 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.7 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 2.135 |
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dc.contributor.author | Ham, J | - |
dc.contributor.author | Gilmour, F | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-08-23T14:11:15Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2016-08-23T14:11:15Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Work, Employment & Society, 2017, v. 31 n. 5, p. 748-763 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0950-0170 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/229454 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The idea of ‘exiting’ the sex industry plays a powerful symbolic role in the feminist debates around the morality, legitimacy and regulation of sex work. Drawing on interviews with 39 women sex workers in Australia and Canada, we explore three key contrasts between dominant narratives and interventions that frame ‘exiting’ as escape from trauma or exploitation, and sex workers’ assessments of ‘exiting’ as a personal or professional strategy. First, we explore sex workers’ perceptions of sex work as temporary work. Second, we analyse the symbiosis between exit plans and current work practices. Third, we examine workers’ assessment of the value of ‘exiting’ sex work in the context of changing market forces within the sex industry, the ‘square’ labour market (or non-sex work sectors) and exiting interventions (i.e. programs to assist workers in leaving sex work). | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Sage Publications Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://wes.sagepub.com | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Work, Employment & Society | - |
dc.rights | Work, Employment & Society. Copyright © Sage Publications Ltd. | - |
dc.subject | employment transitions | - |
dc.subject | exit plans | - |
dc.subject | exiting | - |
dc.subject | sex work | - |
dc.title | 'We all have one': Exit plans as a professional strategy in sex work | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Ham, J: jham@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Ham, J=rp02065 | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/0950017016666198 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85029639852 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 261174 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 31 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 5 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 748 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 763 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000423232900002 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0950-0170 | - |