Transformations of Labour Through the Lens of Sex Work : Navigating Digitalization, Precarity and Resistance.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sori, Iztok.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Charting precarity, agency, and politics of sex work

Part I: The digital reconfiguration of sex work

Chapter 1: Webcamming: Where digital labour meets smooth capital

Chapter 2: Platform sex work and workplace self-help literature: Discourses of authenticity and individualism

Chapter 3: A peek behind the veil of the intermediary status of porn platforms: The atypical nature of porn content creators' employment in the UK

Chapter 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

Chapter 5: Ambivalences of precarity: Sex workers' assessments of quality of work in Slovenia's sex industry

Chapter 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

Chapter 7: Sex work, post-socialist precarity, and civil society: Shifting frames of recognition of sex work in Poland after 1989

Chapter 8: Playing with the law: The Greek sex workers' movement's struggle for recognition, state feminisms, and work under neoliberalism

Chapter 9: Building social unionism: Sex workers' struggles and their alliances in Spain

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-059366-6

1-003-64083-4

1-04-064640-9

9781003640837

OCLC:

1549523657

Publisher Number:

CIPO000305181