Money Makes Us Relatives: Women's Labor in Urban Turkey - Couverture rigide

White, Jenny B.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 041532663X ISBN 13 : 9780415326636

Editeur : Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

Money Makes Us Relatives 'Money Makes Us Relatives' asks why Turkish society devalues women's work, concealing its existence while creating a vast pool of cheap labour for the world market. Jenny White shows how women's paid work is regarded in terms of kinship obligation and thus an extension of domestic work for the family.

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

In the rural immigrant community of Istanbul, poor women spend up to fifty hours a week producing goods for export, yet deny that they actually 'work'. Money Makes Us Relatives asks why Turkish society devalues women's work, concealing its existence while creating a vast pool of cheap labor for the world market. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork among family producers and pieceworkers, and using fascinating case studies throughout, Jenny B. White shows how women's paid work is viewed in terms of kinship relations of reciprocity and obligation - an extension of domestic work for the family, which is culturally valued but poorly compensated. Whilst offering the benefits of social identity and long-term security, women's work also reflects global capitalism's ability to capture local cultural norms, and to use these to lower production costs and create exploitative conditions.
This fully revised second edition includes a new introduction and conclusion, updated references, comparative material on women's labor elsewhere in the world, and brand new material on Islam, globalization, gender and Turkish family life. It is an important contribution to debates about women's participation in late global capitalism.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Jenny B. White is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Boston University, and has previously taught at the University of Nebraska and at Marmara University in Turkey. She is president-elect of the Turkish Studies Association and of the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 041532663X
• ISBN 13: 9780415326636
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 200