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  • Sex Work and Human Dignity

    Law, Politics and Discourse

    Series series Interdisciplinary Studies in Sex for Sale
    The notion of human dignity is frequently, yet enigmatically, invoked in legal and political debates on sex work, where many people use it without much elaboration on exactly what they mean by it. Sex Work and Human Dignity: Law, Politics and Discourse sheds light on this enigma, by exploring how dignity-based discourses are used by those who write and talk about prostitution and also what role ... Read more

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  • Internet Sex Work

    Beyond the Gaze

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book takes readers behind the screen to uncover how digital technologies have affected the UK sex industry. The authors use extensive new datasets to explore the working practices, safety and regulation of the sex industry, for female, male and trans sex workers primarily working in the UK. Insights are given as to how sex workers use the internet in their everyday working lives, ... Read more

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    Sweatshops in the Global Economy

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society
    This book provides a comprehensive defense of third-world sweatshops. It explains how these sweatshops provide the best available opportunity to workers and how they play an important role in the process of development that eventually leads to better wages and working conditions. Using economic theory, the author argues that much of what the anti-sweatshop movement has agitated for would actually ... Read more

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  • Buttoned Up

    Clothing, Conformity, and White-Collar Masculinity

    Who is today's white-collar man? The world of work has changed radically since The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and other mid-twentieth-century investigations of corporate life and identity. Contemporary jobs are more precarious, casual Friday has become an institution, and telecommuting blurs the divide between workplace and home. Gender expectations have changed, too, with men's bodies ... Read more

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  • Privatization, Vulnerability, and Social Responsibility

    A Comparative Perspective

    Series series Gender in Law, Culture, and Society
    Taking a cross-cultural perspective, this book explores how privatization and globalization impact contemporary feminist and social justice approaches to public responsibility. Feminist legal theorists have long problematized divisions between the private and the political, an issue with growing importance in a time when the welfare state is under threat in many parts of the world and private ... Read more

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  • Le doctorat en France : mode(s) d'emploi

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  • The Ties That Bind (Routledge Revivals)

    Law, Marriage and the Reproduction of Patriarchal Relations

    by Carol Smart ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1984, this book made an important and timely contribution to the development of the idea that the law is a major source of women’s oppression. Based on research of the theory and practice of family law, it examines the way in which private law operates to sustain, reproduce and reinforce the dependence of women in the most private of spheres, namely marriage.The author focuses ... Read more

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  • The Legitimation Crisis of Neoliberalism

    The State, Will-Formation, and Resistance

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
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  • The South Wales Miners

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    by Ben Curtis ...
    Series series Studies in Welsh History
    The booming coal industry of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was the main reason behind the creation of modern south Wales and its miners were central to shaping the economics, politics and society of south Wales during the twentieth century. This book explores the history of these miners between 1964 and 1985, covering the concerted run-down of the coal industry under the Wilson ... Read more

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  • Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England

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