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Work Conditions and Job Mobility in the Australian Indoor Sex Industry

Author(s) -

Gilmour Fairleigh Evelyn

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

sociological research online

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.593

H-Index - 49

ISSN - 1360-7804

DOI - 10.5153/sro.4166

Subject(s) - sex workers , negotiation , sex work , flexibility (engineering) , carving , work (physics) , sociology , occupational mobility , space (punctuation) , narrative , labour economics , business , management , geography , engineering , social science , economics , medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , demography , research methodology , computer science , population , family medicine , archaeology , operating system , mechanical engineering , philosophy , linguistics

This article explores sex workers’ experiences of work conditions and job mobility in the indoor sectors of the Australian sex industry: brothel work, escort work and small cooperative work. Drawing from 14 in-depth life-narrative interviews with sex workers and former sex workers, it explores the key challenges faced by participants in navigating regulation and carving out a safe and lucrative working space. It offers a critical account of job flexibility and mobility in the sex industry and argues that the availability of increased options in a decriminalized setting means a greater range of potential spaces for workers to negotiate a suitable work environment.

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