Human trafficking: a comparative analysis of why countries with similar characteristics have different situations
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White slavery, public health, and the socialist position on legalized prostitution in Argentina, 1913-1936.
In January 1875, the Buenos Aires municipal council legalized female sexual commerce within authorized bordellos. A decade of rapid urbanization and population growth, characterized by a high proportion of unmarried males, had created problems of social control and public health that had to be addressed by city authorities. Assisted in their task by doctors specializing in public health who were aware of European legislation on the issue, councilmen enacted a law purportedly intended to improve public health. Instead, the desire to create revenues from exorbitant license fees meant that municipally regulated prostitution served principally to keep prostitutes off the streets and enlarge city coffers. It was not until 1888 that the Dispensario de Salubridad (or Prostitutes' Registry) was established along with the Sifilicomio (the venereal disease hospital) to periodically examine and treat women in licensed houses of prostitution.1 Municipal attitudes toward prostitutes paralleled official views of other working-class women. During the same years, less successful measures were enacted to register and monitor wet-nurses, female domestic servants, hotel employees, and waitresses. By the early twentieth century, local authorities were discouraging the employment of females as cafe waitresses by charging their employers high license fees and forcing the women to register as prostitutes. The common goal of these laws was to control independent, lower-class females at the same time that unsupervised women workers were being removed from the urban workplace.2
Violence at Work
Part 1 Understanding violence at work: introduction - a catalyst for action patterns and trends explanations. Part 2 Responding to violence at work: legislative and regulatory interventions guidelines and best practice international action. Part 3 Future guidance: beyond violence - lessons for future action.