"It's the money, honey": the economy of sex work in the Maritimes *. From: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology | Date: August 1, 2006| Author: Jeffrey, Leslie Ann; MacDonald, Gayle | COPYRIGHT 2006 Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Assn. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

This paper is based on interviews with 60 sex workers in three Maritime cities. We found that sex workers often made careful decisions between the economic choices--including minimum-wage work or welfare--and between indoor or street-based sex work. Patterns of resistance to dominant economic structures that are comparable to other workers in the Maritimes emerged from the interviews. Understanding sex workers as resistant workers allows us to see that many of their concerns revolve around ...

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