SummaryThis article analyses the debate on trafficking and policies to combat the recruitment of persons for commercial sex within the Advisory Committee on the Traffic in Women and Children of the League of Nations. Its main argument is that the Committee's governmental and non-governmental representatives engaged in what might be called a “moral recruitment of women”. This form of recruitment had a double purpose: to protect females from prostitution through the provision of “good employment”, and to repress intermediaries of prostitution by means of criminalization. Three elements of the Committee's internal debates and concrete actions will receive special attention. Firstly, the ideological framework (feminism, social purity, humanitarianism, abolitionism, regulationism, and/or class); secondly, the gender dynamics (differences of opinion between the Committee's male and female representatives); and thirdly the degree of gendering (construction or reinforcement of gender roles and relations).
Christian Grey's biological mother was Ella, a drug-addicted sex worker. Christian and Ella lived in extreme poverty in Detroit and both were badly abused by Ella's pimp. Christian was 4 years old when his mother committed suicide; he spent four days with her dead body until the pimp found them and called the police. In later life, Christian only referred to his mother as "the crack whore".The background of one of the main characters of the best seller Fifty Shades trilogy is characterized by platitudes that are all too often believed to be "typical" of prostitution: poverty, male abuse, economic exploitation, drugs, decadence, and trauma. Yet the extent to which these representations of prostitution are supported by sound empirical evidence has since the last decades of the twentieth century increasingly been questioned by scholars, activists, and sex workers who call for the integration of commercial sex in the realm of labour. This book seeks to engage in this ongoing debate by means of a global and comparative history of female prostitution in cities worldwide from 1600 to the present.Notwithstanding the large number of national studies on particular aspects of prostitution (policies, attitudes, and labour market), no international comparison over a significant span of time has ever been attempted. We start in the early modern period in order to gauge whether practices and attitudes regarding prostitution have altered throughout the last four centuries around the world. By including the precolonial situation, we aim to observe to what extent prostitution changed with the settlement of Europeans in overseas territories. Although the distinction between "premodern" and "modern" prostitution is perhaps not very sharp, we presume that the important political, military, and socioeconomic changes that took place from ca. 1600 onward have had a profound impact on the sale of sex. The long historical and broad geographical approach of our project permits us to draw some general conclusions regarding the extent to which the practice of prostitution and societal reactions to it have been influenced by processes of colonization, industrialization, urbanization, the rise of nation-states, nationalism, and war, as well as revolutions in the © Magaly Rodríguez García et al., 2017 | doi 10.1163/9789004346253_002 This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
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To celebrate its ninetieth anniversary in 2009, the International Labor Organization (ILO) has started preparation of a book on the organization's history. The project's coordinators hope to reach a wide audience by involving both ILO staff and scholars. The initiative is welcome by everyone interested in the history of the oldest international organization of the twentieth century, created with the primary objective of developing ideas and policies on social and economic issues for the improvement of labor conditions. Parallel to this in-house initiative, various scholars thought it appropriate to make a pure academic assessment of the ILO's origins, achievements, failures, present objectives, and future potential, as well as of the utility of its unique tripartite structure; that is, official representation from national governments, business, and labor.
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