Activists find that sex work is considered a less legitimate occupation today than it was in the 1980s and early 1990s. They now confront representations of sex workers as victims, sold and bought across national borders and reduced to the status of things. In this climate, labour rights seem irrelevant. Recent shifts in the language of consent and compulsion in the UK are explored in the light of historical parallels in order to suggest a general ambivalence towards all forms of work. Is it possible to experience freedom or only subjugation at work? What is the role of gender in differentiating these polar opposites?.
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