Katie Cruz
Biographic Data
| ID | 389644 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katie Cruz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katie |
| FAMILY NAME | Cruz |
| SIGNATURE | CRUZ K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4584-3936 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Trade union legal mobilization and consciousness
Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey's recent auto‐critique invited legal consciousness scholars to develop their analyses of legal hegemony in the context of collective sites of legality construction and the contestation of the hegemony of state law. Trade unions provide a particularly apposite group and institutional site to study such processes. From a Marxist perspective, recent labour law scholarship has argued that union engagement with law repr…
Unionising Sex Workers and Other Feminists
A minor movement of strippers and sex workers are unionising as the Sex Workers’ Union (SWU) branch of the Bakers Food & Allied Workers Union. SWU have produced a counter hegemonic perspective on law and society in the process of class struggle. This perspective demystifies the view that strippers and sex workers are free workers and enterprising subjects, or unfree vulnerable victims in need of state protection. SWU's counter hegemonic perspecti…
Ser, estar e habitar a desinstitucionalização da saúde mental brasileira
Dancers win at work: Unionization and Nowak v Chandler Bars Group Ltd
In the United Kingdom, United Sex Workers is organizing as the sex workers' branch of the trade union United Voices of the World (UVW). Sex workers have located dancer unionization and labour rights within a political framework and set of demands relating to socially reproductive labour and decriminalization of all forms of sex work. Their efforts have led to an Employment Tribunal decision that dancers fall within the definition of “worker” foun…
Back at the kitchen table: Reflections on decolonising and internationalising with the Global South socio-legal writing workshops
It has been three years since we held the Feminism, Legality and Knowledge (FLaK) seminar to respond to our developing frustrations and excitement around feminist legal studies and academic publishing. In the wake of our 25th anniversary in 2018, we critically reflect further on our original intention to stock up on decolonising techniques to mix feminism, legality and knowledge whilst building on previous consideration of our self-proclaimed ‘in…
Narrativas e sentidos do Programa de Volta para Casa: Voltamos, e daí
Este artigo apresenta e resume os principais achados em relação às repercussões do Programa de Volta para Casa nos territórios existenciais de seus beneficiários. Para isso, insere-se no bojo dos estudos internacionais e nacionais sobre o impacto das políticas públicas e avaliação do próprio beneficiário sobre elas. Dado o volume e a extensão dos dados, optou-se por apresentar análises a partir das narrativas construídas, elencando-se quatro aspe…
Affective Organizing: Collectivizing Informal Sex Workers in an Intimate Union
As informal, self-employed workers, street sex workers are frequently understood as a "hard-to-organize" group. As they are not legally registered or protected, they are excluded from institutional arrangements for unionization and collective bargaining and from access to both labor and social protections, due to the lack of recognition of the work they undertake. Despite this, sex workers in Argentina have been successful in generating solidarit…
Beyond Liberalism: Marxist Feminism, Migrant Sex Work, and Labour Unfreedom
In this article, I use a Marxist feminist methodology to map the organisation of migrant sex workers’ socially reproductive paid and unpaid labour in one city and country of arrival, London, UK. I argue that unfree and ‘free’ (sexual) labour exists on a continuum of capitalist relations of (re)production, which are gendered, racialised, and legal. It is within these relations that various actors implement, and migrant sex workers contest, unfree …
Jane Scoular: The Subject of Prostitution: Sex Work, Law and Social Theory
Wench Tactics? Openings in Conditions of Closure
Picking up the question of what FLaK might be, this editorial considers the relationship between openness and closure in feminist legal studies. How do we draw on feminist struggles for openness in common resources, from security to knowledge, as we inhabit a compromised space in commercial publishing? We think about this first in relation to the content of this issue: on image-based abuse continuums, asylum struggles, trials of protestors, custo…
Sally Engle Merry: The Seductions of Quantification: Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking
Feminism, Law, and Neoliberalism: An Interview and Discussion with Wendy Brown
Unmanageable Work, (Un)liveable Lives: The UK Sex Industry, Labour Rights and the Welfare State
This article draws from interview material with sex worker rights activists in London, and sex work scholarship, to explore the demand for labour rights for sex workers and erotic dancers. I argue that there are two positions visible in activism and scholarship, which I term ‘liberal’ and ‘materialist’. Whilst the former posits that the problem with sex work is insufficient mainstreaming of commercial sex within the labour market, the latter stre…
Beyond Liberalism: Marxist Feminism, Migrant Sex Work, and Labour Unfreedom
In this article, I use a Marxist feminist methodology to map the organisation of migrant sex workers’ socially reproductive paid and unpaid labour in one city and country of arrival, London, UK. I argue that unfree and ‘free’ (sexual) labour exists on a continuum of capitalist relations of (re)production, which are gendered, racialised, and legal. It is within these relations that various actors implement, and migrant sex workers contest, unfree …
Unmanageable Work, (Un)liveable Lives: The UK Sex Industry, Labour Rights and the Welfare State
This article draws from interview material with sex worker rights activists in London, and sex work scholarship, to explore the demand for labour rights for sex workers and erotic dancers. I argue that there are two positions visible in activism and scholarship, which I term ‘liberal’ and ‘materialist’. Whilst the former posits that the problem with sex work is insufficient mainstreaming of commercial sex within the labour market, the latter stre…
Feminism, Law, and Neoliberalism: An Interview and Discussion with Wendy Brown
Dancers win at work: Unionization and Nowak v Chandler Bars Group Ltd
In the United Kingdom, United Sex Workers is organizing as the sex workers' branch of the trade union United Voices of the World (UVW). Sex workers have located dancer unionization and labour rights within a political framework and set of demands relating to socially reproductive labour and decriminalization of all forms of sex work. Their efforts have led to an Employment Tribunal decision that dancers fall within the definition of “worker” foun…
Back at the kitchen table: Reflections on decolonising and internationalising with the Global South socio-legal writing workshops
It has been three years since we held the Feminism, Legality and Knowledge (FLaK) seminar to respond to our developing frustrations and excitement around feminist legal studies and academic publishing. In the wake of our 25th anniversary in 2018, we critically reflect further on our original intention to stock up on decolonising techniques to mix feminism, legality and knowledge whilst building on previous consideration of our self-proclaimed ‘in…
Unionising Sex Workers and Other Feminists
A minor movement of strippers and sex workers are unionising as the Sex Workers’ Union (SWU) branch of the Bakers Food & Allied Workers Union. SWU have produced a counter hegemonic perspective on law and society in the process of class struggle. This perspective demystifies the view that strippers and sex workers are free workers and enterprising subjects, or unfree vulnerable victims in need of state protection. SWU's counter hegemonic perspecti…
Narrativas e sentidos do Programa de Volta para Casa: Voltamos, e daí
Este artigo apresenta e resume os principais achados em relação às repercussões do Programa de Volta para Casa nos territórios existenciais de seus beneficiários. Para isso, insere-se no bojo dos estudos internacionais e nacionais sobre o impacto das políticas públicas e avaliação do próprio beneficiário sobre elas. Dado o volume e a extensão dos dados, optou-se por apresentar análises a partir das narrativas construídas, elencando-se quatro aspe…
Affective Organizing: Collectivizing Informal Sex Workers in an Intimate Union
As informal, self-employed workers, street sex workers are frequently understood as a "hard-to-organize" group. As they are not legally registered or protected, they are excluded from institutional arrangements for unionization and collective bargaining and from access to both labor and social protections, due to the lack of recognition of the work they undertake. Despite this, sex workers in Argentina have been successful in generating solidarit…
Wench Tactics? Openings in Conditions of Closure
Picking up the question of what FLaK might be, this editorial considers the relationship between openness and closure in feminist legal studies. How do we draw on feminist struggles for openness in common resources, from security to knowledge, as we inhabit a compromised space in commercial publishing? We think about this first in relation to the content of this issue: on image-based abuse continuums, asylum struggles, trials of protestors, custo…
Unmanageable Work, (Un)liveable Lives: The UK Sex Industry, Labour Rights and the Welfare State
This article draws from interview material with sex worker rights activists in London, and sex work scholarship, to explore the demand for labour rights for sex workers and erotic dancers. I argue that there are two positions visible in activism and scholarship, which I term ‘liberal’ and ‘materialist’. Whilst the former posits that the problem with sex work is insufficient mainstreaming of commercial sex within the labour market, the latter stre…
Feminism, Law, and Neoliberalism: An Interview and Discussion with Wendy Brown
Wench Tactics? Openings in Conditions of Closure
Picking up the question of what FLaK might be, this editorial considers the relationship between openness and closure in feminist legal studies. How do we draw on feminist struggles for openness in common resources, from security to knowledge, as we inhabit a compromised space in commercial publishing? We think about this first in relation to the content of this issue: on image-based abuse continuums, asylum struggles, trials of protestors, custo…
Sally Engle Merry: The Seductions of Quantification: Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking
Beyond Liberalism: Marxist Feminism, Migrant Sex Work, and Labour Unfreedom
In this article, I use a Marxist feminist methodology to map the organisation of migrant sex workers’ socially reproductive paid and unpaid labour in one city and country of arrival, London, UK. I argue that unfree and ‘free’ (sexual) labour exists on a continuum of capitalist relations of (re)production, which are gendered, racialised, and legal. It is within these relations that various actors implement, and migrant sex workers contest, unfree …
Jane Scoular: The Subject of Prostitution: Sex Work, Law and Social Theory
Back at the kitchen table: Reflections on decolonising and internationalising with the Global South socio-legal writing workshops
It has been three years since we held the Feminism, Legality and Knowledge (FLaK) seminar to respond to our developing frustrations and excitement around feminist legal studies and academic publishing. In the wake of our 25th anniversary in 2018, we critically reflect further on our original intention to stock up on decolonising techniques to mix feminism, legality and knowledge whilst building on previous consideration of our self-proclaimed ‘in…
Narrativas e sentidos do Programa de Volta para Casa: Voltamos, e daí
Este artigo apresenta e resume os principais achados em relação às repercussões do Programa de Volta para Casa nos territórios existenciais de seus beneficiários. Para isso, insere-se no bojo dos estudos internacionais e nacionais sobre o impacto das políticas públicas e avaliação do próprio beneficiário sobre elas. Dado o volume e a extensão dos dados, optou-se por apresentar análises a partir das narrativas construídas, elencando-se quatro aspe…
Affective Organizing: Collectivizing Informal Sex Workers in an Intimate Union
As informal, self-employed workers, street sex workers are frequently understood as a "hard-to-organize" group. As they are not legally registered or protected, they are excluded from institutional arrangements for unionization and collective bargaining and from access to both labor and social protections, due to the lack of recognition of the work they undertake. Despite this, sex workers in Argentina have been successful in generating solidarit…
Dancers win at work: Unionization and Nowak v Chandler Bars Group Ltd
In the United Kingdom, United Sex Workers is organizing as the sex workers' branch of the trade union United Voices of the World (UVW). Sex workers have located dancer unionization and labour rights within a political framework and set of demands relating to socially reproductive labour and decriminalization of all forms of sex work. Their efforts have led to an Employment Tribunal decision that dancers fall within the definition of “worker” foun…
Ser, estar e habitar a desinstitucionalização da saúde mental brasileira
Unionising Sex Workers and Other Feminists
A minor movement of strippers and sex workers are unionising as the Sex Workers’ Union (SWU) branch of the Bakers Food & Allied Workers Union. SWU have produced a counter hegemonic perspective on law and society in the process of class struggle. This perspective demystifies the view that strippers and sex workers are free workers and enterprising subjects, or unfree vulnerable victims in need of state protection. SWU's counter hegemonic perspecti…
Trade union legal mobilization and consciousness
Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey's recent auto‐critique invited legal consciousness scholars to develop their analyses of legal hegemony in the context of collective sites of legality construction and the contestation of the hegemony of state law. Trade unions provide a particularly apposite group and institutional site to study such processes. From a Marxist perspective, recent labour law scholarship has argued that union engagement with law repr…
Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Sex work and related issues (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Sex work (5 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (3 works)