ABSTRACT
A global demand exists for labor whose core component consists of “women’s work.” Sex-trade workers supply sex, live-in caregivers perform childcare and housework, and so-called mail-order brides furnish all three. Foreign workers who take jobs Canadians will not do find themselves in a dramatically disadvantaged position in relation to the meaning and impact of temporary status. Lap dancing and related practices occupy a grey zone in the Canadian legal landscape. Canadian club owners negotiate with brokers who guarantee delivery of exotic dancers. The financial arrangements with respect to women working in strip clubs involve paying daily fees to the club and the disc jockey plus special fees for the “VIP rooms”. Several aspects of Green’s comments warrant attention, apart from his patent misrepresentation regarding earnings. White slavery narratives projected not only the positive image of the victims but also the negative image of their complement, the violators. Government policy toward exotic dancers is disingenuous, if not hypocritical.
