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This paper aims to investigate how family, labor market and the state policies diversely shape working class women's work experiences in Mexico City, Mexico and Istanbul, Turkey. While Mexico and Turkey show similarities in terms of their economic structures and economic policies since the 1980s, working class women have different working experiences. Working class women's diverse work experiences can be understood with a holistic approach taking into consideration the interconnections between multiple institutions. Social institutions such as the family, the work and the state are organized according to the unwritten and written rules of gender ideology. Working class women face different patriarchal practices embedded in these institutions of Mexico as well as Turkey. While labor market dynamics that working class women encounter are similar in Mexico and Turkey, divergences in the family structures and state policies are the main factors behind their women's different work experiences. While the importance of mahrem (privacy) and namus (honor), the strict private/public domain distinction, intensive flow of women's labor towards family members and the lack of women-friendly policies discourage women's labor force participation in Turkey, different definition of masculinity and family structure, intergenerational female support system, women's relatively higher mobility (rural-to-urban and in the urban areas) and certain policies in Mexico are more likely to encourage women to work in Mexico. Analysis and arguments of this paper are based on in-depth interviews I conducted with 40 working class women, both within and outside the labor force in Mexico City, Mexico and Istanbul, Turkey. |
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| Bespinar-Ekici, Fatma. "Working Class Women's Work Experiences in Mexico and Turkey: Family, Labor Market and the State" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA, Jul 31, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p242112_index.html> |
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| Bespinar-Ekici, F. U. , 2008-07-31 "Working Class Women's Work Experiences in Mexico and Turkey: Family, Labor Market and the State" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p242112_index.html |
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Abstract: This paper aims to investigate how family, labor market and the state policies diversely shape working class women's work experiences in Mexico City, Mexico and Istanbul, Turkey. While Mexico and Turkey show similarities in terms of their economic structures and economic policies since the 1980s, working class women have different working experiences. Working class women's diverse work experiences can be understood with a holistic approach taking into consideration the interconnections between multiple institutions. Social institutions such as the family, the work and the state are organized according to the unwritten and written rules of gender ideology. Working class women face different patriarchal practices embedded in these institutions of Mexico as well as Turkey. While labor market dynamics that working class women encounter are similar in Mexico and Turkey, divergences in the family structures and state policies are the main factors behind their women's different work experiences. While the importance of mahrem (privacy) and namus (honor), the strict private/public domain distinction, intensive flow of women's labor towards family members and the lack of women-friendly policies discourage women's labor force participation in Turkey, different definition of masculinity and family structure, intergenerational female support system, women's relatively higher mobility (rural-to-urban and in the urban areas) and certain policies in Mexico are more likely to encourage women to work in Mexico. Analysis and arguments of this paper are based on in-depth interviews I conducted with 40 working class women, both within and outside the labor force in Mexico City, Mexico and Istanbul, Turkey. |
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| BespinarEkici ASA 2008 WORKING CLASS WOMEN’S WORK EXPERIENCES IN MEXICO AND TURKEY: FAMILY LABOR MARKET AND THE STATE F. Umut BEŞPINAR-EKİCİ Ph.D. Department of Sociology University of Texas at Austin 1. INTRODUCTION Working class women’s work experiences in different socio-cultural settings have become one of the important themes in gender and work literature since the late 1980s (Beneria and Roldan 1987; Gonzalez de la Rocha 1988; Beneria 1992; Moser 1993; Perez-Aleman 1992; Saraceno 1992; Cerrutti 1997; Salzinger 2003; White 1994; |
| “Economic Crisis and Women in Nicaragua ” in Unequal Burden: Economic Crises Persistent Poverty and Women’s Work. Edited by L. Beneria S. Feldman pp. 239-258. Oxford: Westview Press. Salzinger Leslie. 2003. Genders in Production: Making Workers in Mexico’s Global Factories. Berkeley: University of California Press. Saraceno C. 1992. “Women’s paid and unpaid work in times of economic crisis” in Unequal Burden: Economic Crises Persistent Poverty and Women's Work. Edited by L. Beneria S. Feldman p. 239-258. Boulder: Westview Press. |
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