"Money Makes Us Relatives" shows how women's work in Turkey is viewed as a poorly-paid extension of domestic family labor, opening up key debates about women's roles in late global capitalism.

In the rural immigrant community of Istanbul, poor women spend up to fifty hours a week producing goods for export, yet deny that they actually 'work'. Money Makes Us Relatives explores why both women and men in Turkey devalue women's work, concealing its existence while creating a vast pool of cheap labour for the world market. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork among family producers and pieceworkers, and using fascinating case studies throughout, the book shows how women's paid work is viewed in terms of kinship relations based on reciprocity and obligation - an extension of domestic work for the family, which is just as poorly compensated. This fully revised second edition includes a new introduction and conclusion, updated references and brand new material on Islam, globalization, gender and family life in Turkey. It is an important contribution to wider debates about the economic exploitation of women in late global capitalism.

Note on the New Edition. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction 2. Women and the global workforce 3. The Turkish case 4. Bridge between Europe and Asia 5. Marriage: The house of the world 6. The patriarch 7. Mothers and sons 8. The social web 9. Money makes us relatives 10. The life cycle of an
atelier: Yenikent 11. Kinship and production Conclusion: Local modernisms in the global factory Notes. References. Index.