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Healing Labor is an ethnography of how adult Japanese women working in Tokyo's sex industry experience and understand the contradictions that define their work and its social value.

Gabriele Koch is an outstanding maker of burnished sawdust-fired coiled pots, in a style which is very modern yet tied to an ancient ethnic tradition. Reaching the peak of her career in the late 1980s, this ceramic artist now has a large worldwide following. Her work was the subject of a special Crafts Council exhibition in London and is on display in many public collections including The Victoria & Albert Museum and City Art Galleries in Leeds, Bradford, Stoke on Trent, Aberystwyth and Aberdeen. This new volume of the work first published in 1996 contains an introductory text by Gabriele Koch and 22 colour plates of her work.