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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.
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.
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