Metaphorical Machines or Mindless Consumers: Young Working-Class Femininity in Early Postwar Turkey

IF 0.5 3区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Görkem Akgöz
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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 image of factory women that emphasized their productive potential by metaphorically linking them with technology and mass production. However, this proud, progressive message was counterbalanced by an anxious, conservative view of young women's work—one that criticized factory girls’ consumption choices as posing a threat to respectable femininity. Weaving together lines of inquiry such as the change in industrialisation policy, women's access to technology, the sexual division of labor, and the emergent consumption patterns, I unpack the tropes of working-class productivity and femininity against the backdrop of the post-war expansion of capitalism in Turkey.
隐喻机器还是无意识的消费者?战后早期土耳其年轻工人阶级的女性特质
摘要 20 世纪 30 年代和 40 年代上半叶,世俗国家建设和国家主导的工业化进程同时产生了一种新的土耳其妇女劳动意识形态。随着战后土耳其摆脱保护主义和国家主导的工业化,女性工业劳工越来越受到政策制定者、雇主、新工会运动和中产阶级女权主义者的关注,但这种关注又是相互矛盾的。一方面,出现了一种理想化的工厂女工形象,通过将她们与技术和大规模生产隐喻地联系起来,强调她们的生产潜力。然而,与这种自豪、进步的信息相抗衡的是一种对年轻女性工作的焦虑、保守的观点--批评工厂女工的消费选择对受人尊敬的女性形象构成了威胁。我将工业化政策的变化、女性获取技术的途径、性别分工和新兴消费模式等问题交织在一起,在战后土耳其资本主义扩张的背景下,解读了工人阶级的生产力和女性特质。
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期刊介绍: ILWCH has an international reputation for scholarly innovation and quality. It explores diverse topics from globalisation and workers’ rights to class and consumption, labour movements, class identities and cultures, unions, and working-class politics. ILWCH publishes original research, review essays, conference reports from around the world, and an acclaimed scholarly controversy section. Comparative and cross-disciplinary, the journal is of interest to scholars in history, sociology, political science, labor studies, global studies, and a wide range of other fields and disciplines. Published for International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc.
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