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Sex Work and the Law: Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States and Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work

Sex Work and the Law: Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States and... Books and the Arts 117 traditional workplace-based manner. As she emerging new organizing forms? The answer puts it, the state is “the one actor that cannot could help determine the extent to which the escape” (p. 30). Yet she also notes that employ- informal workers movement will prove sustain- ers help to fund the welfare boards, which sug- able in the years to come, as well as its potential gests that they are at least minimally implicated to contribute to any broader transformative in meeting workers’ demands, if only indirectly. projects. At the same time, as Agarwala acknowledges Although Agarwala’s book does not provide (p. 198), the social benefits provided by the all of the answers to these questions, it is never- state function in part as an indirect subsidy to theless an invaluable contribution to labor employers, insofar as they are contributing scholarship, opening up a vast new research toward the reproduction costs of labor power. agenda for anyone interested in the challenges Yet the book neglects the role of employers in of organizing the growing ranks of precarious the political process which leads to state con- workers around the globe. cessions in the face of workers’ demands. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Labor Forum SAGE

Sex Work and the Law: Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States and Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work

Shah, Svati P.
New Labor Forum , Volume 24 (2): 5 – May 1, 2015
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Books and the Arts 117 traditional workplace-based manner. As she emerging new organizing forms? The answer puts it, the state is “the one actor that cannot could help determine the extent to which the escape” (p. 30). Yet she also notes that employ- informal workers movement will prove sustain- ers help to fund the welfare boards, which sug- able in the years to come, as well as its potential gests that they are at least minimally implicated to contribute to any broader transformative in meeting workers’ demands, if only indirectly. projects. At the same time, as Agarwala acknowledges Although Agarwala’s book does not provide (p. 198), the social benefits provided by the all of the answers to these questions, it is never- state function in part as an indirect subsidy to theless an invaluable contribution to labor employers, insofar as they are contributing scholarship, opening up a vast new research toward the reproduction costs of labor power. agenda for anyone interested in the challenges Yet the book neglects the role of employers in of organizing the growing ranks of precarious the political process which leads to state con- workers around the globe. cessions in the face of workers’ demands.

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Published: May 1, 2015

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