Making Work, Making Trouble

An examination of how prostitution in Canada has been produced as a social problem. Contending that social problems do not exist objectively, Brock interprets the role of various actors in mounting the urban sex trade spectacle.

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Deborah Brock is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at York University. She is the author of Making Work, Making Trouble: The Social Regulation of Sexual Labour, Second Edition (2009), co-editor of Power and Everyday Practices (2012), and editor of Making Normal: Social Regulation in Canada (2003).