Sex Worker Unionisation examines the challenges and opportunities offered by unionisation for Sex Workers. Exploring unionisation projects undertaken by Sex Workers in most major economies, this ground-breaking study shows how sex-workers have collectively sought to control and organise their work and working lives by co-determining the wage-effort with their de facto employers. It highlights the range of significant obstacles that have impeded their progress, including owner hostility, state regulation and the sway of radical feminism that is present in many unions. Outlining a more efficacious model for sex worker unionisation based upon combining occupation unionism and social movement unionism, this pioneering and controversial new book offers an important study of business organization in a unique industry.
Gregor Gall is Professor of Industrial Relations at University of Bradford School of Management, UK. He has authored and edited more than fifteen books on union and industrial relations including Sex Worker Union Organizing: An International Study (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
Sex Worker Unionisation examines the challenges and opportunities offered by unionisation for Sex Workers. Exploring unionisation projects undertaken by Sex Workers in most major economies, this ground-breaking study shows how sex-workers have collectively sought to control and organise their work and working lives by co-determining the wage-effort with their de facto employers. It highlights the range of significant obstacles that have impeded their progress, including owner hostility, state regulation and the sway of radical feminism that is present in many unions. Outlining a more efficacious model for sex worker unionisation based upon combining occupation unionism and social movement unionism, this pioneering and controversial new book offers an important study of business organization in a unique industry.
Gregor Gall is Professor of Industrial Relations at University of Bradford School of Management, UK. He has authored and edited more than fifteen books on union and industrial relations including Sex Worker Union Organizing: An International Study (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
1 Introduction
2 Sex workers before sex work
3 Sex worker union organising in North America
4 Australia and New Zealand
5 Germany and the Netherlands
6 Britain and continental Europe
7 Asia, Africa and Latin America
8 Influences on unionisation
9 Conclusion
Appendix: interviewees and informants
References
Gregor Gall is Professor of Industrial Relations at University of Bradford School of Management, UK. He has authored and edited more than fifteen books on union and industrial relations including Sex Worker Union Organizing: An International Study (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
“Worthwhile reading for anyone interested in the labour rights and
political mobilization of sexual service providers, as well as the
unionization of self-employed, precarious or marginalized workers
more broadly. It provides a brief and concise overview of
organizations, unions and pressure groups representing sexual
service providers … . The book takes its readers to countries
including the US, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Germany
and the Netherlands, and explores the successes and failures of
unionization efforts in these countries.” (Gregor Gall, Work,
Employment and Society, Vol. 32 (05), October, 2018)
“Gall (Univ. of Bradford, UK) provides examples, challenges, and
economicpossibilities of efforts to unionize sex workers throughout
the globe. Gall’s academic book is based on interviews with union
organizers and research focusing on leading industrial relations
and economics journals. … it did succeed at presenting women as
laborers trying to make changes in their occupational environment.
Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through
professionals.” (G. E. Kaupins, Choice, Vol. 54 (3), November,
2016)
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