Women’s Productive and Reproductive Labour: Class and Gender Inequalities in Turkey

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Ayşe Arslan

Women’s Productive and Reproductive Labour

Class and Gender Inequalities in Turkey

Ayşe Arslan

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Routledge
18 December 2024

Gender studies, gender groups; Labour economics; Development economics; Political economy; Manufacturing industries

Series: Routledge Studies in Gender and Economics

This book looks at the dynamic relationship between women’s productive and reproductive work in a Global South country from a Global South perspective.

Applying a feminist political economy and historical materialist approach and building on an ethnographic extended case study, it analyses the relationships between class and gender across both the productive and reproductive realms at the macro and micro levels in the case of women garment workers in Turkey. Overall, it shows that the material and social conditions of women’s productive and reproductive work co-constitute each other. It suggests that productive and social reproductive labour should be examined as an integrated process and an interrelated social relation, in constant dialogue with other social relations.

This book is of interest to researchers and students in the disciplines of gender studies, labour studies, feminist economics, sociology and development studies. Given that most studies on social reproduction have largely focused on the Global North, this book is of particular interest to those in search of a more comprehensive and holistic understanding. It is also of great relevance to policymakers concerned with gender and labour issues as well as labour and feminist activists.

By: Ayşe Arslan
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780367710309
ISBN 10: 0367710307
Series: Routledge Studies in Gender and Economics
Pages: 204
Publication Date: 18 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Ayşe Arslan is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Hacettepe University. She received her PhD from SOAS University of London. She won both the 2020 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize (awarded by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES)) and the 2019 Young Social Scientist Prize (awarded by the Turkish Social Sciences Association) for her PhD thesis. Her work focuses on class, gender, reproductive labour, labour regimes, working class organisation, the everyday and Turkey’s political economy. She has published peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters in English and Turkish.