5. December 2016
Number 223, December 2015
University of the Witwatersrand
While Amnesty International adopted a policy favoring full decriminalization of sex work earlier this year, the labour movement remains divided: should it see sex work as violence against women, to be abolished (Bindel 2003), or as a legitimate occupation needing to be unionized (Hardy 2010)? Sex workers have organised for their rights since at least the 1970s, even forming or joining trade unions in some cases, but the labour movement tends to ignore these efforts.
Thierry Schaffauser