Dancing Naked: Precarious Labour in the Contemporary Female Strip Trade
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Abstract
This paper explores the precarious labour conditions of the female strip trade in Canada and the United States. In a 2001 study of the feminization of work, Leah Vosko suggested that the current labour market in Canada is characterized by a move towards increased temporary and precarious work. Building on Vosko’s study, this paper explores how the contemporary female strip trade is situated within, and characterized by, these precarious labour conditions. Some of these conditions include: an unsteady income, an undefined and non-regulated employee/employer relationship, physical and emotional exhaustion, as well as an absence of benefits and/or compensation. Drawing on eleven autobiographies of professional strippers, and other empirical studies in the substantive area, this paper unobtrusively explores the precarious nature of the contemporary female strip trade while simultaneously exploring the larger labour trends it is situated within. Key words : Precarious labour; Temporary work; gender; Qualitative research Resume Cet article explore les conditions precaires de travail du commerce de la bande des femmes au Canada et aux Etats-Unis. Dans une etude de 2001 de la feminisation du travail, Leah Vosko suggere que le marche actuel du travail au Canada est caracterise par une evolution vers le travail temporaire et precaire a augmente. S'appuyant sur l'etude de Vosko, cet article explore comment le commerce de bande contemporaine feminine est situe a l'interieur, et se caracterise par, ces conditions de travail precaires. Certaines de ces conditions comprennent: un revenu instable, une indefinie et non reglementee employe/ employeur relation, l'epuisement physique et emotionnel, ainsi que l'absence d'avantages sociaux et/ ou de compensation. Dessin sur onze autobiographies de strip-teaseuses professionnelles, et d'autres etudes empiriques dans le domaine de fond, cet article explore discretement le caractere precaire du commerce bande de femmes contemporaines, tout en explorant les tendances du travail plus elle est situee a l'interieur. Mots cles: Travail de Precarite; Le travail temporaire; Sexe; Recherche qualitative
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.020 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".