How Neoliberalism Transformed Sex Work in the United States

Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale A 16 minute read. The sociologist Elizabeth Bernstein did fieldwork with sex workers in San Francisco between 1994 and 1998.[1] By her estimate, 20% of sex workers in the city in 1994 worked on the streets. Four years later, 2% of sex workers walked the streets and 98% worked indoors.