Women laboring in home-based and cooperative work in Nurtepe

Abstract

This thesis research aims to depict a non-essentialist and non- reductionist representation of the articulation of home-based work with women’s unpaid domestic labor within the household. It is a case study based on the in-depth interviews conducted with the members of a women’s cooperative, who perform various kinds of labor and occupy multiple class and non-class positions both within and outside their households. The thesis provides a diverse economies framework for social analysis of the interviewees’ households and the cooperative, by exploring the multiple class and non-class processes overdetermining these social sites.