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Deborah R. Brock - Making Work, Making Trouble: The Social Regulation of Sexual Labour - 9780802098283 - V9780802098283
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Making Work, Making Trouble: The Social Regulation of Sexual Labour

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Description for Making Work, Making Trouble: The Social Regulation of Sexual Labour hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JM; JFMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 505.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802098283
SKU
V9780802098283
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

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

Reviews for Making Work, Making Trouble: The Social Regulation of Sexual Labour
'One of the book's strengths is that Brock considers not only the actions of the courts and law enforcement, but also economic shifts, the role of media reporting and the construction of Canada's often invisible social classes ... Making Work, Making Trouble is an important addition to the Canadian literature on sex work, providing a critical base with which to ... Read more

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