Challenging the Invisibility of Sex Work in Digital Labour Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5089961 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helen M Rand (0000-0002-2513-0667, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 123 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 40-55 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0141778919879749 |
| OpenAlex | W2995497966 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 50 |
| References cited | 43 |
This article adds to the debate on digital labour by including sexual labour, a feminised form of work that is traditionally excluded from official labour statistics and mainstream labour politics because of the embedded sociolegal, cultural and political context that defines female sexual labour as illegitimate work. This exclusion has been extended to digital labour politics. This article draws on a four-year multi-method qualitative study in the UK, which in part focused on sex work mediated and managed by digital platforms. Drawing on and adding to the literature on women's digital entrepreneurialism, I argue that digital sex workers embody an 'entrepreneurial subjectivity' and narrate ideals of flexibility and choice. However, on closer inspection, digital platforms shape and manage the labour so that agency over labour practices and processes become coerced choices
Agency (philosophy) · Context (archaeology) · Economics · Flexibility (engineering) · Human sexuality · Invisibility · Mainstream · Management · Political science · Politics · Sex work · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Work (physics) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Engineering · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Sex work and related issues
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Introduction
Prostitución y Trata sexual
The Marketing of Female Escorts
‘My body, my money’
OnlyFans as gig-economy work
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Image-based sexual violence and imperfect victims
Planetary sex markets
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Regulating and representing camming
Visibility in the shadows
Content moderation as worker management
Online sex workers’ absence from gig economy discourse
What Sex Workers Do
Online Sex Work and Identity Expression
Navigating queer digital sex work
Navigating and resisting platform affordances
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Policy and Platforms
Changing Patterns of Commercial Sex Work Amongst Adolescent Girls in Nepal
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Aesthetic worldings of work
The platformisation of illicit drug markets
Non-consensual sharing of images
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Cross-platform, cross-border
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Platforms, sex work and their interconnectedness
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Content creation and gig-work in the platform economy
Sex Workers Cannot Be Wrong
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The Right Amount of Sex
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Hustling the Platform
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The definitional creep
Performativity and affective atmospheres in digitally mediated care labour
The Rise of the 'Just-in-Time Workforce'
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Working online, living offline
Logged labour
Uberworked and Underpaid
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Culture and Subjectivity in Neoliberal and Postfeminist Times
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Gendered work
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Temporarily Yours
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Feminist theories of technology
Devalued, deskilled and diversified
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Difference and Dependence among Digital Workers
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Free Labor
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| Unique citing works | 50 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 8,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 47 |