Metaphorical Machines or Mindless Consumers: Young Working-Class Femininity in Early Postwar Turkey
Journal: International Labor and Working-Class History
Year: 2023

Abstract The simultaneous processes of secular state-building and state-led industrialisation resulted in a new ideology of women's labor in Turkey in the 1930s and the first half of the 1940s. As the country moved away from protectionist, state-led industrialisation in the post-war period, female industrial labor received increasing and contradictory attention from policy makers, employers, the new trade union movement, and middle-class feminists. On the one hand, there emerged an idealized ima