Women Workers in Turkey: Global Industrial Production in Istanbul
Globalisation is often considered as not only generating jobs, but also having a negative effect on those at the bottom of the labour supply chain. Here Saniye Dedeoglu shows us exactly how globalisation has affected women engaged in insecure, invisible and low/unpaid garment work. Through a close ethnographic study of women workers in Istanbul's garment industry, she reveals how industries have adapted their labour demands to make use of local female labour supplies, and highlights the strategies and responses that have evolved in response to contemporary changes in global industrial production in Turkey. Dedeoglu shows how production for global markets has seeped into local labour markets, contributing to a culture of work which is informal and whose participants are often invisible. "Women Workers in Turkey" throws up the critical question of what it means to be a woman in today's globalised society, and is an important contribution to the various perspectives on the social and economic consequences of globalization to the least priviliged in industrial socieities.
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Women Workers in Turkey: Global Industrial Production in Istanbul
Globalisation is often considered as not only generating jobs, but also having a negative effect on those at the bottom of the labour supply chain. Here Saniye Dedeoglu shows us exactly how globalisation has affected women engaged in insecure, invisible and low/unpaid garment work. Through a close ethnographic study of women workers in Istanbul's garment industry, she reveals how industries have adapted their labour demands to make use of local female labour supplies, and highlights the strategies and responses that have evolved in response to contemporary changes in global industrial production in Turkey. Dedeoglu shows how production for global markets has seeped into local labour markets, contributing to a culture of work which is informal and whose participants are often invisible. "Women Workers in Turkey" throws up the critical question of what it means to be a woman in today's globalised society, and is an important contribution to the various perspectives on the social and economic consequences of globalization to the least priviliged in industrial socieities.
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Women Workers in Turkey: Global Industrial Production in Istanbul

Women Workers in Turkey: Global Industrial Production in Istanbul

by Saniye Dedeoglu
Women Workers in Turkey: Global Industrial Production in Istanbul

Women Workers in Turkey: Global Industrial Production in Istanbul

by Saniye Dedeoglu

Overview

Globalisation is often considered as not only generating jobs, but also having a negative effect on those at the bottom of the labour supply chain. Here Saniye Dedeoglu shows us exactly how globalisation has affected women engaged in insecure, invisible and low/unpaid garment work. Through a close ethnographic study of women workers in Istanbul's garment industry, she reveals how industries have adapted their labour demands to make use of local female labour supplies, and highlights the strategies and responses that have evolved in response to contemporary changes in global industrial production in Turkey. Dedeoglu shows how production for global markets has seeped into local labour markets, contributing to a culture of work which is informal and whose participants are often invisible. "Women Workers in Turkey" throws up the critical question of what it means to be a woman in today's globalised society, and is an important contribution to the various perspectives on the social and economic consequences of globalization to the least priviliged in industrial socieities.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780760315
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 06/30/2012
Edition description: Revised
Pages: 232
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Saniye Dedeoglu is Marie Curie Fellow at the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations at the University of Warwick, UK, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Labour Economics at the University of la, Turkey. She holds a PhD from the Department of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and is co-editor of Gender and Society in Turkey: The Impact of Neoliberal Policies, Political Islam and EU Accession (I.B.Tauris, 2012).

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

GLOBAL INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION AND FEMALE EMPLOYMENT

THE MACRO CONTEXT:SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHANGE, LABOUR MARKETS AND FEMALE EMPLOYMENT IN TURKEY

THE GARMENT INDUSTRY IN ISTANBUL AND DEMAND FOR FEMALE LABOUR

WOMEN WORKERS IN ISTANBUL: FACTORY WOMEN, ATELIER GIRLS AND PIECEWORKER HOUSEWIVES

PATRIARCHY, GENDER AND LABOUR SUPPLY IN GECEKONDU NEIGHBORHOODS OF ISTANBUL

WOMEN IN THE WORKPLACE: RECRUITMENT AND MOBILITY

CONCLUSION

Notes

Bibliography

Glossary of Terms

Index

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