Money Makes Us Relatives

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.

Jenny B. White is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Boston University, and has previously taught at the University of Nebraska and at Marmara University in Turkey. She is president-elect of the Turkish Studies Association and of the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association.

Note on the New Edition Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Women and the Global Workforce 3. The Turkish Case 4. Bridge between Europe and Asia 5. Marriage: The House of the World 6. The Patriarch 7. Mothers and Sons 8. The Social Web 9. Money Makes us Relatives 10. The Life Cycle of an Atelier: Yenikent 11. Kinship and Production Conclusion: Local Modernisms in the Global Factory Notes References Index