Black Market Business

Author/Contributor(s):	Firpo, Christina Elizabeth
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	12/15/2020
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

"Drawing on hundreds of detailed cases of sex work, this book examines the informal economy for clandestine prostitution that developed in the late colonial period in Vietnam and explores the geographic layout of Tonkin's black market sex industry; the widespread use of unfree labor in the form of debt bondage and human trafficking; the market for adolescent girls; and clandestine prostitution in àa ³áao singing houses and Western-style dance halls"--