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Winner of the British Society of Criminology Annual Book Prize 2022.
As the labour market continues to exploit workers by offering precarious, low-paid and temporary jobs, for some duality offers much-needed flexibility and staves off poverty.
Based on extensive empirical work, this book illustrates contemporary accounts of individuals taking extraordinary risks to hold jobs in both sex industries and non-sex work employment. It also opens a dialogue about how sex industries are stratified in the UK in terms of race and culture against the backdrop of Brexit.
Debunking stereotypes of sex workers and challenging our stigmatisation of them, this book makes an invaluable contribution to discourses about work, society and future policy.
Foreword by John Lowman
Introduction
“You can’t make a living doing porn”: Laith
“I am the same me in bookings as I am out”: Sage
“I was an escort on a bike”: Kora
“Maybe it will be good for British girls because less Europeans coming into the industry”: Darcy
“I was outed in one of the tabloid newspapers”: Anonymous
“They are both shitty jobs … because I’m not free”: Sierra
“Don't judge us as different from you": Wyatt
Postscript