Well, this was another one of those books that I might have skipped over had it not been part of a challenge I'm doing (reading the NPR book concierge). Instead, I'm really glad I picked it up. It was really more entertaining that I thought it would be.
We follow Jennifer Worley as she makes her way through college and graduate school in San Francisco working in a strip club. First of all, it was nothing like what I expected strip clubs to be like. I mean, my only reference point is TV shows, and this was nothing like that. Anyway, the cool part about it is that the dancers came together and formed their own union when they wanted to negotiate with their bosses, and then later, when the place was going to be shut down, they worked together to run the place by themselves.
Jennifer also did some research into the history of stripper's unions, and had some fascinating data on all of that. I just found this book to be really enjoyable and educational and not at all like I was expecting.