Product Description

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". 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. 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3744916 in Books
• Published on: 1994-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 190 pages

Review
Offers valuable ethnographic insights into the production process in family enterprises, and about the role of gender and family ideologies. - International Journal of Middle East Studies

She has extraordinary knowledge and understanding of Turkish society ... Not many scholars studying Turkish society have been able to produce such a stimulating interesting and thought-provoking analysis of urban culture. - Contemporary Sociology

So full of insights and intriguing information that no novel could compete with it ... The exposition on the complex organisation of the Turkish family is the most thorough I have read. - Gender and Society

This excellent study challenges orthodox Marxist analysis of small-scale commodity production: it is a most welcome addition to gender, labor and Turkish studies. - American Anthropologist

This fascinating and lively study illuminates an important and intriguing aspect of contemporary Turkey. - Choice