2003 3 Abstract : This paper describes preliminary findings of a study on female sex2workers in the labor market field in Northeast China. The study focuses on the female sex2workers occupational mobility, in2 troducing their work experiences, comparing their different jobs as a sex2worker and others such as wait2 ress, massagist girls, peddler, and exploring the reasons why they chose sex work as their job. The paper utilizes a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods including more than one2month intensive fieldwork (informal deep interview, community2based observation) during the data collection period and basic statistic analysis using SPSS10. 0 after transfering the qualitive materials into data. 103 female sex2 workers were involved in this study. The study finds out half the famale sex2workers we interviewed are Xiagang female workers, and almost all of them are from urban areas, which indicates the reduction of the anonymity that necessary for the profession of sex work on condition that the females encountered economy crises. Moreover, the occupational mobility from the jobs after Xiagang to being as a sex2worker is some kind of horizontal mobility instead of downwards as most of the people portrayed. The study also analyzes four kinds of relationsohips ( Guanxi) that play different roles in their continual job2hunting process : no relationship (depend on themselves), relative2based relationship, friend2based relationshiip (formal occupation agency). The paper argues that friend2based relationship wins the bid ultimately. 2002 7 9, A B C,:, (), ;,;, :, 103, ;, ;,,, ;,, : ( ) ( ) ; ; ( ),,,,,,,10, ;, 51
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