List of Tables and Figures. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. Introduction. A Comprehensive, Relational Approach to Women's Productive and Reproductive Labour in the Neoliberal Era. Garment Labour, Gender and Social Reproduction. Methodology: An Ethnographic, Multi-Method Research. Organisation of the Book. Gender and Class across the Realms of Production and Social Reproduction from a Feminist Historical Materialist Perspective: A Relational, Comprehensive Approach. Class As a Social Relation: A Thompsonian Class Perspective. Marxist Feminist and Feminist Political Economy Theories on Women's Unpaid Reproductive Labour. Labour in the Age of Neoliberalism: Waged Labour, Social Reproduction and Gender. Conclusion. Gender and Labour Relations in Turkey in the Neoliberal Age: Women's Employment, Labour Informalisation and Women's Unpaid Reproductive Labour. Neoliberal Transition and Women's Employment in Turkey. Relations of Production, Labour Informality and Flexibilisation during the AKP Era. Gendered Processes of Labour Informalisation and Women's Reproductive Labour under Turkey's Neoliberal Conservative Hegemony. Conclusion. Organisations of Production and Labour Regimes in the Garment Industry. Factory Production. The Conditions of Factory Labour. Labour Control, Work Pressure and Alienation of Labour. Sweatshop Production. The Conditions of Sweatshop Labour. Syrian Refugee Workers and Child Workers in Sweatshops. Home-Based Garment Production: The Organisation of Work and Labour Conditions. Conclusion. Class beyond an Economic Location: Socio-Cultural and Everyday Life, and Gender Dynamics in the Garment Industry. The Socio-Cultural Atmosphere and Everyday Life on the Shop Floor. Workers' Social Profiles and the Life Paths that Lead Them to Be a Garment Worker. The Gendered Nature of Work and Everyday Life in the Garment Industry. Gender Relationships and Sexual Harassment at Work. The "Bad" Image of Women Garment Workers and Women's Control over Other Women. Conclusion. Class as a Complex Set of Social Relations: Intra-Class Relationships in the Garment Industry. Workplaces beyond Commodity Production. Different Ethno-Cultural Identities on the Garment Shop Floor Intra-Class Relationships under the Neoliberal Labour Regime and Patriarchy: Competition or Solidarity? Conclusion. Housework and Care Work - Whose Work?: Women Garment Workers' Reproductive Labour. Productive and Reproductive Work Together: The Unequal Division of Labour at Home. The Interplays between Reproductive and Productive Work. Mothers, Sisters, Daughters: The Women's Reserve Army of Reproductive Labour. "Men Have One Job, Women Have a Thousand": Women's Opinions and Feelings. The Realities and Dreams of Women Workers. Conclusion. Conclusion. Women's Productive and Reproductive Labour from a Feminist Historical Materialist and Political Economy Perspective. Labour Informality and Women's Labour in the Garment Industry. Class as an Experience and a Social Relation. Subordination and Exploitation beyond the Garment Industry: The Unpaid Reproductive Work of Women Garment Workers. Appendix 1. Interviews with Women Workers. Appendix 2. Date and Place of Interviews with Women Workers. Appendix 3. Interviews with Employers. Appendix 4. Other Interviews. Index.
