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

Applying a feminist political economy and historical materialist approach and building on an ethnographic extended case study, this book 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.

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.