Flexible Workers: Labour, Regulation and the Political Economy of the Stripping Industry

ISBN-13: 9780415679183 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 206 str.

Teela Sanders;Kate Hardy;?Abar

Opis

Lap dancing has become the focus of many important contemporary debates about gender, work and sexuality. This book moves away from the tradition of exploring gender and intimacy in relationships between dancers and customers in order to examine the official and internal regulation of the industry, the management of clubs, and the labour supply and working conditions of dancers.

Spis treści

Introduction: Beyond the Stripping Wars  Chapter 1. Locating the Strip-Based Entertainment Industry  Chapter 2. From Pathology to Labour: The Discursive Landscape of Strip Clubs, Workers and Regulation  Chapter 3. Empty shell licensing: law, reform and Sexual Entertainment Venues  Chapter 4. The race to the bottom: working conditions and value production in the strip club  Chapter 5. Professionals, pragmatists and strategists: Understanding labour supply in the UK strip industry  Chapter 6. "No dancer ever earns money out of the pole": Attentive economies of stripping work Chapter 7. Falling through the regulatory gap: managing and licensing stripping  Chapter 8. Speaking back: the feminist and class politics of stripping  Conclusions. Proliferation, stagnation or decline? The UK strip industry now and beyond  Dancers Interviewed.