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

by Jenny B. White

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415326648
• ISBN13: 9780415326643
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.2" x 9.2"