Episode 3: Worker Struggles (Part 2) - No Bad Whores, Just Bad Laws

True Currency: About Feminist Economics

This is second part of Worker Struggles, centering on issues around women and paid work. Women working in the sex industry talk about their struggle to name sex work as work, meaning they can demand safer and fair working conditions. The episode also starts to unpack the idea of ‘reproductive labour’, a central idea in feminist thought, describing the usually unpaid care-giving and domestic work predominantly done by women, and whether this is considered work. True Currency: About Feminist Economics is a 6 part podcast by The Alternative School of Economics (artists Ruth Beale and Amy Feneck) who draw on their experiences as artists and mothers, and speak to academic researchers, policy experts, community leaders and activists, to explore financial inequality, feminism, intersectionality, labour exploitation, unpaid work, care, unionisation and reproductive labour. PRESENTED BY: Ruth Beale and Amy Feneck (The Alternative School of Economics) PRODUCED BY: Lucia Scazzocchio (Social Broadcasts) COMMISSIONED BY: Gasworks SUPPORTED BY: The Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Arts Council England. VOICES IN THIS EPISODE: Jade, sex worker & member of United Sex Workers Stacey Clare, stripper and member of United Sex Workers and East London Strippers Collective (ELSC) Shiri Shalmy, Organiser with Cooperation Town, Antiuniversity Now, United Sex Workers and the Women’s Strike Assembly. Full speaker biographies and project information available here: https://bit.ly/tc-episode3.