Popular representations of third-world sex workers as sex slaves and vectors of HIV have spawned abolitionist legal reforms that are harmful and ineffective, and public health initiatives that provide only marginal protection of sex workers' rights. In this book, Prabha Kotiswaran asks how we might [...]
The first single-volume survey of the nascent, interdisciplinary, field of economic sociology of law, this new text shows how empirical sociological methods can shed light on the complex interactions between law, the economy, and society.[...]