All the groups mentioned in my post are made up primarily of current and former sex workers, so yes sex workers themselves are definitely leading the debate on this issue, on both or all sides. And I think sex workers and their advocates pretty much agree that women and men just trying to earn a living should not be prosecuted and should get any treatment they need. I know there is at least one actual union of sex workers (at the Lusty Lady in San Francisco), there are probably other official unions, meanwhile groups like SWOP aim to in many ways …
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Kari Lydersen, an In These Times contributing editor, is a Chicago-based journalist writing for publications including The Washington Post (where she is a staff writer), the Chicago Reader and The Progressive. Her most recent book is Revolt on Goose Island. She can be reached at kari@inthesetimes.com.
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Lydersen teaches journalism at Columbia College and to high-school students. Her work can be read at www.karilydersen.com.
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Hello Reading your comment I'm afraid maybe I didn't make my point clearly (and maybe didn't do Gabriel Thompson's story justice in the process); I think the underlying message is that these industries have become (as opposed to in days past) structured in such a way that they are inhumanly grueling and dangerous for any worker. I know these sectors have always involved very hard work which as you say plenty of "Americans" were willing to do in the past, but the massive scale and the production line speed and/or amount of production expected of workers today has been greatly increased …
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