Hardy, K orcid.org/0000-0003-0429-2701 (2016) Uneven Divestment of the State: Social Reproduction and Sex Work in Neo-developmentalist Argentina. Globalizations, 13 (6). pp. 876-889. ISSN 1474-7731
Abstract
Sex work has been identified as an important dimension of the ‘survival circuits’ which have developed in the majority world in the context of neo-liberalisation, as a response to the deepening misery of the Global South. Yet while much research has explored the role of sex work in contexts of ‘neo-liberal’ regimes of capital accumulation, few have paid sustained attention to sex work in regimes which are not purely ‘neo-liberal’. Drawing on data with sex workers across 10 cities in Argentina gathered between 2007 and 2014, this article examines multiple spaces of sex workers' lives, including the workplace, the home, and the state in a context of what has been dubbed ‘neo-developmentalism’. It argues that sex work contributes multiple forms of value and subsidies for the state and capital. First, sex work provides a subsidy in the form of the provision of ‘employment’; second, female sex workers provide unwaged reproductive labour in the family; and third, in the labour movement. Yet despite these three contributions to the reproduction of the working class and therefore of capital, the state undermines sex workers' capacities through violence and sustained repression. The article concludes that the neo-developmentalism has led to ‘uneven divestment of the state’ in the reproduction of particular sections of the working class, namely those outside the formal and ‘productive’ sectors.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Globalizations on 5 May 2016, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2016.1163882 |
Keywords: | social reproduction; sex work; Argentina; prostitution; neo-devolopmentalism; the state |
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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: | 23 May 2016 11:56 |
Last Modified: | 05 Dec 2017 01:38 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2016.1163882 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/14747731.2016.1163882 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:99369 |