Women, Work and Mobilities

The case of urban and regional contexts in Turkey

Nihan Akyelken

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Routledge
18 December 2024

Gender studies, gender groups; Sociology: work & labour; Human geography; Regional geography

This book explores the wider implications of how workers move within and across cities and regions to reach economic opportunities. It does so with a specific focus on women in urban and regional contexts in Turkey.

The book reveals specificities and generalisations about mobility patterns of women in low-income households/low-paid jobs and how these change in the existence of urban and regional interventions, such as industrial zoning, urban transformations and mobility restrictions. The book presents new theorisations of work and mobility through labour agency, showing how mobility changes the recruitment and use of labour under state interventions. It orchestrates the existing narratives of containment, mobility and rootedness to shed light on the role of labour agency in organising livelihoods. The book particularly acknowledges the multiscale, multifaceted and relational nature of mobilities entailed in the economy by bringing the role of labour agency into urban and regional contexts.

This book will appeal to researchers and students working on labour geography, feminist geography, mobilities and urban studies.

By: Nihan Akyelken
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032562988
ISBN 10: 1032562986
Pages: 142
Publication Date: 18 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introducing mobility as a neutral concept and workers as separate agents Chapter 2: Planning for im/mobile labour Chapter 3: Working in industry zones Chapter 4: Working amid urban transformations Chapter 5: Working during the ""lockdown"" Chapter 6: Conclusions

Nihan Akyelken is an Associate Professor in Sustainable Urban Development at the University of Oxford.