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| | Overview of BLS Statistics by Industry |
 | | National data by industry, age, sex, race, and ethnicity are available from the Current Population Survey. | | | Data on the number of layoffs by industry also are provided: Monthly and quarterly reports identify, describe, and track the effects of major job cutbacksreferred to as mass layoffs. | | | Unemployment statistics are available by industry: Monthly and annual data on unemployment by industry are from the Current Population Survey. |
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http://www.bls.gov/bls/industry.htm
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| | [Reader-list] Sex Work is Different from Trafficking |
| | The extensive reach and deep economic and social roots of the > commercial sex industry make it imperative that governments do not simply > close their eyes to it, especially now that unemployment figures are rising > in South-east Asia. | | | > > "The sex business has assumed the dimensions of an industry and has directly > or indirectly contributed in no small measure to employment, national income > and economic growth," she added. | | | > > Researchers' estimates show that the sex industry's contribution to the GDP > of the four countries range from more than 2 percent in Indonesia to 14 > percent in Thailand -- the high-end estimates for those countries. |
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http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/2003-September/003036.html
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| | Third World Women's Health: Prostitution and Sex Tourism |
| | New industry must replace the current sex industry to enact real change for women and children in prostitution. | | | In sex tourism, an American man may pay a sex travel agency for a trip to Thailand which includes airfare, hotel, food, and women for sex. | | | Coalition Against Trafficking in Women "works internationally to oppose all forms of sexual exploitation." Actions include support for policy against trafficking and prostitution; statements on the United Nations and governmental roles to work against traffikcing; and a report of a protest against one company that provides sex tours. |
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http://www.arches.uga.edu/~haneydaw/twwh/traf.html
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| | Trafficking Policy Research Project: Rights for Migrant Workers - Sex Workers |
| | Trafficking in the sex industry is examined within the range of abuses within the sex industries with goals of decriminalization and sex industry reform. | | | The Trafficking Policy Research Project provides an outline of alternative analyses and strategies for the global problems of trafficking and forced labor, prioritizing welfare of sex workers in the context of migrant labor. | | | The definition of trafficking has been the center of the debates on strategies to combat forced labor, and for some, to combat the sex industries. |
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http://www.bayswan.org/traffick/trafficking.html
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| | Across borders: Sex trafficking of women |
| | Recruiters, matchmakers and sex traffickers: all profit immensely from the flourishing sex industry. | | | It is no wonder, therefore, that despite the alarming statistics, the government continues to encourage the export of human resources, the flourishing of sex trade and enforces no concrete measures to prevent sex trafficking. | | | Sex trafficking is the systematic and organized transport of women and children for the purpose of sex for profit. |
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http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/54a/235.html
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| | Texas Citrus - The Texas Citrus Industry |
| | The Texas citrus industry is almost totally located in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, with about 85 percent of the acreage in Hidalgo County, 14 percent in Cameron County and only about 1 percent in Willacy County. | | | Changes and improvements in the Texas citrus industry have occurred primarily in response to natural disasters, particularly the freezes of the late 1940s, 1951, 1962, 1983, and 1989. | | | The probability of a freeze in Texas is about the same as in Florida, but freezes usually are more damaging to the Texas citrus industry because of its concentration in a relatively small geographic area. |
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http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/citrus/l2286.htm
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| | The Link Between Prostitution and Sex Trafficking |
| | The Swedish Government has found that much of the vast profit generated by the global prostitution industry goes into the pockets of human traffickers. | | | The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade. | | | Trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation decreased as well.[ 6 ] In contrast, where prostitution has been legalized or tolerated, there is an increase in the demand for sex slaves [ 7 ] and the number of victimized foreign women many likely victims of human trafficking.[ 8 ] |
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http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/rls/38790.htm
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| | Trafficking in Politics: Bush's strong rhetoric on sex slavery masks policy failures. -- In These Times |
| | South Korean authorities estimated that their country’s sex industry was worth $22 billion a year and involved 330,000 women. | | | As a sex worker myself, I have had to overcome the stigma attached to women who not only are very free with their sexualities, but also that attached to women who are willing to exchange sex for monetary compensation. | | | Sex workers in Thailand (as well as Cambodia, Burma, and everywhere these “White Saviors” have taken it upon themselves to play moral police) are saying they do not need to be rescued. |
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http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2007
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| | Coverage of the Inevitable Apocalypso |
| | Warming to his argument, Swan points out "that if the same number of church-based pedophiles had come from the sex industry, a Parliamentary inquiry would have commenced years ago. | | | The sex industry and the church both employ approximately 20,000 people in Australia. | | | As it appears, the sex industry seems remarkable free of convicted pedophiles... |
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http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/apocalypzo.htm
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| | This Just In SLAVE LABOR |
| | Q: How difficult is this industry to monitor? | | | In some cases, people pay off their debts over time and then leave. | | | Often, they go into debt to the people who are trafficking them. |
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http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/this_just_in/documents/02537755.htm
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| | Captive Daughters |
| | The proliferation of sex trafficking is encouraged by the growing demands of the sex industry in both the East and West. | | | While sex trafficking is most recognized in Asia and other countries where women traditionally have had a lesser status, the sex trade is also a growing, profitable business in North America. | | | Sex trafficking is accomplished by means of direct or indirect violence or threat of violence, abuse of authority or dominant position, debt-bondage, deception, or other forms of coercion. |
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http://www.captivedaughters.org/What_is_Trafficking.htm
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| | stopVAW -- Trafficking and Commercial Sex Work |
| | Even some seemingly legitimate enterprises, such as matchmaking organizations may, in fact, sell women into a form of sexual servitude though the mail-order bride industry. | | | The commercial sex industry takes many forms, and the relationship between prostitution and trafficking for sex purposes is complicated. | | | Women and children are trafficked into situations of forced labor and commercial sex work. |
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http://stopvaw.org/Trafficking_and_Commercial_Sex_Work.html
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| | Debate on Sex Trafficking |
| | She believes that it is sex-workers themselves who need to author this new framework to remove the repressive legacy of trafficking and incorporate elements of labor rights and women’s rights in the sex industry, which should go beyond the theory of oppressed women and oppressive men. | | | Although the Protocol does recognize the distinction between voluntary prostitution and forced prostitution, it shies away from defining the phrase "exploitation of prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation" because government delegates to the negotiations could not agree on a common meaning. | | | They ask for State policies and practices to provide better education and employment opportunities that enhance women's worth and status and give them more options. |
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http://www.brandeis.edu/projects/fse/Pages/traffickingdebate.html
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| | Equality of Opportunity |
| | According to the Lockean libertarian, a white male landowner who wishes to hire laborers to work his fields may refuse to hire people of any religion, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, or the like that he chooses to regard as a bar to employability. | | | A market economy conforms to formal equality of opportunity only if jobs offered by business firms are publicized in advance, so that anyone who might want to apply has a reasonable opportunity to do so. | | | Despite perfectly conforming to demanding equality of opportunity norms, the society as so far described might appear to be unjust by too stingy provision of opportunity to its least qualified members. |
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http://www.science.uva.nl/~seop/entries/equal-opportunity
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| | TCAnet |
| | The Texas Commission on the Arts is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against age, sex, religion, or disability. | | | The web site for the Texas arts and cultural industry | | | Search TCA's list of funded grants from this year's panel process. |
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http://www.arts.state.tx.us
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| | Text: UNICEF Condemns Child Sex Trafficking |
| | "Trafficking -- especially for commercial sexual exploitation -- has become a worldwide, multi-billion-dollar industry," Bellamy told representatives of governments and civil society gathered to consider strategies for dealing with the issue. | | | "Trafficking on this level cannot escape the attention of local and national law authorities and I call on the governments of these and other countries to enforce both their national laws and to accept their obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child," Bellamy said. | | | Globalisation should benefit societies through increasing opportunities for international trade in goods and services, not by increasing the trade in human beings, Bellamy said. |
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http://japan.usembassy.gov/e/p/tp-2606.html
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| | Sex trafficking a growing outrage |
| | Typically called "trafficking," bartering of women and girls in the sex trade has increased in recent years, according to international women's rights groups. | | | Trafficking in girls and women is an international multibillion dollar industry, according to Equality Now officials. | | | While most of these countries have laws against sex tourism, penalties apply only to travel for the purpose of engaging in sex with minors. |
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http://www.post-gazette.com/headlines/20000607IssueFive4.asp
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| | Brit trust |
| | The BRIT Trust was established in 1989 and is entirely funded by the music industry. | | | BPI outline UK record industry position on DRM | | | Its mission is to give young people a chance to express their musical creativity regardless of race, class, sex or ability. |
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http://www.brittrust.co.uk
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| | Scarlet Alliance - Principles for Model Sex Industry Legislation |
| | Sex industry legislation must acknowledge that prostitution is work and that the workers who work in that industry are entitled to the same industrial rights and protections as other workers. | | | When sex industry businesses have a right under law to seek application and are denied on the basis of a moral objection to their existence the appeal process has generally upheld the law and granted application (Sunny SK Liu v Fairfield City Council; Linda v Cameron Willoughby City Council; Cherie Finlay v Newcastle City Council). | | | The violence and exploitation that sex workers around the world may experience is acknowledged but it is criminal laws regulating the conditions within the sex industry and the stigmatisation of sex workers that creates the conditions for this exploitation. |
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http://www.scarletalliance.org.au/pub/model_principles00/document_view
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| | Home |
| | The sex industry is the sex industry, whether it is played out behind closed doors as an exclusive call girl, while being filmed as an internet sex site performer, or during a stage performance as an exotic dancer. | | | The sex industry involves a wide range of activities including: prostitution, phone sex, stripping, pornography, mistressing, madaming, pimping, and all other forms of commercial sex work. | | | We believe that the sex industry violates basic human rights: the right to be treated with dignity and respect. |
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http://www.sexindustrysurvivors.com/main.htm
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| | Paul Smith's List O'Names: Sex Industry Workers |
| | Industry, Industry, Industry, Sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, sex, Sex, Sex, Sex, sex, work, Work, Workers, Workers. |
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http://www.lightlink.com/wysiati/LON/s/sexindustryworkers.shtml
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| | Scoop: New health and safety guidelines for sex industry |
| | Acting Director of Public Health Dr Douglas Lush said the guide would be a valuable resource for the sex industry to understand how to meet their health and safety requirements, including how to protect themselves and their clients from the risk of infection by adopting and promoting safer sex practices. | | | The guide is intended for sex industry owner/operators and employers, sex industry workers, and those who are self-employed. | | | Since the Prostitution Reform Act was passed into law, the sex industry operates under the same health and safety rules as any New Zealand industry, he said. |
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0407/S00293.htm
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| | aslabor.html |
| | The term 'sex work' was coined by sex workers to emphasize the labor aspect of the sex industry, and to create a term without moral judgment or emotional connotations. | | | The criminal justice system and the international community must recognize the rights and needs of sex workers, before abuses within the sex industry can be adequately addressed. | | | Workers in the sex industry remain unlikely to seek legal recourse even if abuses exist as long as they have reason to fear law enforcement. |
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http://www.swimw.org/aslabor.html
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| | Janice Raymond, Legitmating prostitution as sex work |
| | In its minimization of the harm of prostitution and in its push to redefine prostitution as sex work by recommending that governments recognize the sex industry as an economic sector, the ILO seems oblivious to recent legislation demonstrating that countries are able to reduce organized sexual exploitation instead of capitulating to it. | | | That the sex industry contributes significantly to the economy and GDP of many countries should be taken as a cause for alarm and action against the industry rather than an excuse for acquiescence to it. | | | When the sex sector is recognized as an economic sector, governments may be better able to regulate and monitor the expanding criminal elements of the industry such as organized crime, drug abuse, and especially child prostitution. |
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http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/26/119.html
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| | Sex Sells: California's Adult Entertainment Industry |
| | Likewise, P.A.W. runs educational seminars, offering assistance in estate and pension planning, tax preparation, health education, sexually-transmitted disease (STD) testing, life skills and other support services for the male and female actors in the industry, and is currently seeking access to a credit union for industry personnel. | | | The highest incidence of exposure to adult material was found to be among non-sex-crime related offenders, while rapists, child molesters and other sex-crime offenders showed a preponderant lack of exposure to sex education, sexual experience, and sexually-related materials. | | | The truth of the matter is that the talent in the adult industry, both female and male, solicit their own work, and most are represented by licensed and bonded agents. |
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http://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/arwhitep.htm
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| | AFAJournal.org - sex slave trade |
| | Hughes said a United Nations estimate puts the number of women and children who are sexually exploited by the sex trade industry each year at one million, while child-advocacy groups, according to a story in USA Today, estimate that there are currently two million children worldwide that are working as sex slaves. | | | Hughes said estimates of the money that pours in through the sex industry – prostitution, the sale of women and children through sex trafficking, the sale of child pornography, etc. – are between $7 billion and $57 billion a year. | | | Last year the C.I.A. estimated that between 18,000 and 20,000 people are trafficked annually into the United States.” Of these, an estimated 10,000 are victims of the sex slave industry. |
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http://www.afajournal.org/2004/april/404culture.asp
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| | femmigration-Introduction-France |
| | By sex work we mean all kinds of work in sex industry, be it as a striptease or go-go dancer, as a barmaid or waitress, offering phone or internet sex, or offering sexual services. | | | It is almost impossible for them to obtain residence and work permits in order to work in the sex industry, and working in prostitution may result in the loss of visa or residence permit and, consequently, in expulsion and deportation. | | | Although we do not like the term prostitution, because it tends to discriminate against sex workers, we have to distinguish between sex work and prostitution, since some national legal systems make a distinction between the legal situation for prostitutes and for other workers in the sex industry. |
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http://www.femmigration.net/introduction/intro_france.html
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| | Sappho's Breathing: Feminist sex |
| | I consider myself "anti-porn"----not in the MacDworkin sense (more on how I see that position later), but in the sense that that's how I describe the product of the sex industry which is hands down the most guilty accross the board of exploiting workers (women, especally---but men too to a certain degree). | | | 1) When people reduce complex feminist critique of the sex industry to "feminists are anti-sex", leaving me with the feeling that they'll never listen to me unless I first run after them yelling "Really, I LOVE sex, really, really. | | | Women cannot get pleasure from vaginal sex or anal sex, and if they do, it's only because they are pleased at the thought of pleasing a man. BDSM is always bad, as is anything associated with it, including tattoos and piercings. |
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http://www.sapphosbreathing.com/archives/000268.html
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