Introduction: leaving the tricks and the trade -- All in a day's work: the good, bad, and ugly -- Getting in: from the streets to the program -- Getting on: role distancing -- Still getting on: embracing a new role and identity -- Getting out: remaining out of sex work.

Focusing on four different organizations based in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and Hartford that help prostitutes get off the streets, the author explores the difficulties, rewards, and public responses to female street prostitutes' transition out of sex work. Through in-depth interviews and field research with street-level sex workers, she illuminates their pathways into the trade and their experiences while in it, and the host of organizational, social, and individual factors that influence whether they are able to stop working as prostitutes altogether. She also speaks to staff at organizations that aid street prostitutes, and assesses the techniques they use to help these women develop self-esteem, healthy relationships with family and community, and workplace skills.