Red Light Labour: Sex Work Regulation, Agency, and Resistance

by Elya M Durisin (Editor), Emily van der Meulen (Editor), Chris Bruckert (Editor)

In 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in Canada v Bedford that key prostitution laws were unconstitutional. Red Light Labour addresses the new legal regime regulating sex work by analyzing how laws and those who uphold them have constructed, controlled, and criminalized sex workers, their clients, and their workspaces. This groundbreaking collection also offers nuanced interpretations of commercial sexual labour from the perspectives of workers, activists, and researchers. The contributors highlight the struggle for civic and social inclusion by considering sex workers' advocacy tactics, successes, and challenges. A timely legal, policy, and social analysis of sex work in Canada.

Genres: Nonfiction

336 pages, Hardcover

Published August 28, 2018

Reviews

[Megan · Rating 5 out of 5]

READ THIS BOOK CUTIES

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

Contains lots of evidence based information. Clear, easy to undersand, and presents arugments from both sides. A great read!

[Maxwell O'Toole · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another read for a course on sex work and workers. While there are those who worked/continue to work featured in this collection, its a much more traditionally academic look at the subject based on sociological, and labour theory. Still, very informative especially since it focuses on the industry in Canada! It does a great down breaking down and discussing topics such as the Bedford case and subsequent creation of the (ironically named) PCEPA.

[Zoe Archambault · Rating 4 out of 5]

Got this book from one of those tiny free libraries around the city over a year ago and didn't get around to it until taking a sex worker course this past semester. We jumped around the chapters depending on the topic week to week so I didn't read this book in full, but I really enjoyed the wide variety of topics this book covers through the words of many different authors.