Hardy, KR orcid.org/0000-0003-0429-2701 and Rivers-Moore, M (2018) Compañeras de la calle: Sex Worker Organising in Latin America. Moving the Social: Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements, 59. pp. 97-113. ISSN 2197-0386
Abstract
Latin America has an effervescent and strong sex worker rights movement, which has been frequently overlooked in existing analyses. In focusing on this region, it is possible to identify sex workers’ struggles that are currently leading the way in achieving change for cis-women working in the sex industry. In this article, we examine four countries: Argentina, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Colombia to argue three points. First, that sexworkers in the Global South have much to offer in terms of organising practices and experiences. Second, that while successful at the regional level, these successes have been uneven. Third, that it may be possible to explain these divergences by examining the organisational form adopted by groups, the relationships these organisations sustain with wider labour movements, and the wider political economy of violence in which they organise. We put forward this article as a conceptual framework for beginning to develop comparative methods for understanding sex worker movements.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Klartext Verlag, Essen. This is the published version of the paper "Compañeras de la calle: Sex Worker Organising in Latin America", published in Moving the Social: Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements. Uploaded with permission from the publisher. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Work and Employment Relation Division (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 26 Apr 2019 14:47 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 21:48 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Institute for Social Movements Ruhr University Bochum |
Identification Number: | 10.13154/mts.59.2018.97-113 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:145344 |