Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism

Wright, Melissa W.

doi:10.4324/9780203390313

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“…The employees perform better." Such a view echoes the previous evidence on how workers' (private) time is recognised as a direct input for the productivity of firms (Wright, 2006). However, the daily lives of different groups of women are more complex than this.…”

Section: Commuting Timessupporting

confidence: 58%

“…Turkey, therefore, provides us with a context, where it has been recognised that development planning should target increasing women's reach to industrial zones, hence an observation site to explore the complex dynamics of local institutions and daily space-time constraints in women's everyday life. OIZs are also usefulas they are historically seen as 'masculinised spaces'-in revealing the ways of how gender interplays with the dynamics within the workplaces (Wright, 2006). Afyonkarahisar and Şanlıurfa OIZs are of similar size and both include firms operating in female-dominated sectors.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Mobility-Related Economic Exclusion: Accessibility and Commuting Patterns in Industrial Zones in Turkey

Akyelken

2017

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Geographers have long examined the assumption that women are locally constricted and what this means for women taking up of economic opportunities. These studies have provided valuable insights into the understanding of the spatial dimension of social exclusion. However, the investigation of the role of wider economic, physical and social contexts on women's mobility and accessibility constraints has mainly concerned the countries in North America and Western Europe. Through a mixed methods study of two industrial zones in Turkey, this article looks at how women and men from different social backgrounds access the zones with the aim of identifying the specific constraints that women face in their everyday life in accessing economic opportunities. The results show that while gender seems to play a role in the choice of place of residence and the employers' perception of time use, women's socioeconomic and educational backgrounds seem to be more important predictors of their commuting patterns and access to the zones. The study confirms that gendered daily travel patterns are a useful unit of analysis for investigating unequal access to economic opportunities. It further argues that the complex nature of everyday mobilities of women should be interpreted in conjunction with the perceptions of employers on women's work spaces and time use.

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Section: Commuting Timessupporting

confidence: 58%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mobility-Related Economic Exclusion: Accessibility and Commuting Patterns in Industrial Zones in Turkey

Akyelken

2017

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“…And it is with the help of various registers of social difference that this redrawing of boundaries is accomplished. This occurs by ritualized evocations of age-old stereotypes, such as the one manifested in the representation of southern female workers as "disposable" and "unskillable" (Wright 2006). Another example is the racialized legitimization of "old" disciplinary labor regimes in ostensibly advanced production sites, with hints at cultural traits that are apparently unsuitable for modern production and the corresponding paternalist "obligation" to be a strict northern father to southern factory daughters.…”

Section: Supply Chains and The De-centering Of The Business Firmmentioning

confidence: 99%

Labor Market Segmentation

Berndt

Richardson²,

Castree³

et al. 2017

International Encyclopedia of Geography

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Labor market segmentation theories arose as an alternative to neoclassical notions of labor and labor markets in the 1970s. After briefly revisiting the strengths and the weaknesses of this approach, the article discusses more recent developments around the question of difference and diversity in labor markets, directing attention to three key developments associated with the rise of neoliberal capitalism: (i) the formation of entrepreneurial subjectivities and the treatment of labor as a diverse human resource; (ii) the blurring of the boundaries of the business firm and the implications for labor; and (iii) offshoring and “governance at a distance.”

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“…"Cheap labour" does not pre-exist but must be produced through the social organisation of labour markets and of production itself (Burawoy, 1979). As Melissa Wright (2006) has observed of Mexican and Chinese assembly workers, cheap labour requires, paradoxically, that bodies capable of generating enormous profit be treated as lacking value. At its extreme, cheap labour materialises as "disposable bodies" with predictable consequences for worker injury and death (Karim, 2014).…”

Section: Producing Precarious Bodiesmentioning

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Precarious Bodies: Occupational Risk Assemblages in Bolivia and Trinidad

Prentice

Trueba

2018

GLJ

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This article develops the concept of "precarious bodies" to theorise the lived experience of labour precariousness in the twenty-first century and its implications for workers' health, well-being and household reproduction. Drawing on ethnographic research with Bolivian miners and Trinidadian garment workers, we explore the relationship between workers' exposure to global market forces and their everyday experiences of work, health and risk in these industries. "Precarious bodies" is a heuristic that takes into a single frame the macro-level economic and regulatory processes that create risks for workers, and the various ways in which workers negotiate these risks through their work practices and livelihood choices. We show precarious bodies to be both vulnerable and strategic. Positioned in situations of exploitation and risk, their choices to protect their livelihoods can harm their health and reinforce -rather than counteract -the precarious circumstances of their households.

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Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism

Cited by 262 publications

References 2 publications

Mobility-Related Economic Exclusion: Accessibility and Commuting Patterns in Industrial Zones in Turkey

Mobility-Related Economic Exclusion: Accessibility and Commuting Patterns in Industrial Zones in Turkey

Labor Market Segmentation

Precarious Bodies: Occupational Risk Assemblages in Bolivia and Trinidad

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