Making Work, Making Trouble: The Social Regulation of Sexual Labour - Softcover

Brock, Deborah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802095577 ISBN 13: 9780802095572

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2009

Synopsis

Thoroughly updated to include events that have occurred in the decade since it was originally published, this second edition of Making Work, Making Trouble re-establishes this work as the pre-eminent study of prostitution in Canada. Detailing the various forces that have presented prostitution as a social problem, Deborah R. Brock examines anti-prostitution campaigns, urban development, new policing strategies, and the responses of the media, the courts, and governments, as well as feminist, rights, and residents' organizations.

Paying particular attention to rights and the means of economic survival within global and local realities, this edition includes new material on recent discourse on sex trafficking, migrant sex work, ex-worker rights organizing, and considers the potential impact of the Robert Pickton trial on the practice of sex work. A comprehensive overview of the crucial debates on prostitution, Making Work, Making Trouble is a welcome addition to twenty-first century sociology and criminology.

About this title

About the Author

Deborah Brock is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at York University.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802095577
• ISBN 13: 9780802095572
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 256