Sex Worker Unionization

Gregor Gall is Professor of Industrial Relations at University of Bradford School of Management, UK. He has authored and edited more than fifteen books on union and industrial relations including Sex Worker Union Organizing: An International Study (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)

"Gall (Univ. of Bradford, UK) provides examples, challenges, and economic possibilities of efforts to unionize sex workers throughout the globe. Gall's academic book is based on interviews with union organizers and research focusing on leading industrial relations and economics journals. ... it did succeed at presenting women as laborers trying to make changes in their occupational environment. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals." (G. E. Kaupins, Choice, Vol. 54 (3), November, 2016)

• 1 Introduction2 Sex workers before sex work3 Sex worker union organising in North America4 Australia and New Zealand5 Germany and the Netherlands6 Britain and continental Europe7 Asia, Africa and Latin America8 Influences on unionisation 9 ConclusionAppendix: interviewees and informantsReferences