Choosing to Be Invisible, Dying to Be Visible - Women in Informal Employment in Turkey

The case study presented in this book focuses on gender dynamics in Turkey, exploring how the informal sector is enacted through women's participation and the choices they make in it. It challenges the dichotomy between necessity and choice, arguing that there is a middle ground in which individual choice is socially constrained but in which the individual choices and practices also end up shaping the structural constraints themselves.This well-thought-out ethnographical fieldwork appeals to academicians, postgraduate and undergraduate students with a interest in sociology and social policy, gender and women's studies, development studies, sociology of work.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Being (in)visible in the Labour Market: Choices and Constraints 2. Women's Informal Labour in Turkey 3. Choosing to be Invisible: Invisibility as Survival 4. Make-Do: Constrained Choices 5. Dying to be Visible: Dangers of Informal Employment and Inevitability of Collectivisation 6. Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Funda Ustek-Spilda, Funda (Goldsmiths College Ustek-Spilda
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.05.2019, delayed
• EAN: 9781138480131
• ISBN: 978-1-138-48013-1
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Sociological Futures; Sociological Futures
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories