This dissertation studies the development of an ethnic division of labor in In-House Services in favor of Gagauz Moldovan migrant women from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s in Turkey. The development of this ethnic division of labor has intensified with significant parallel dev…
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Structural transformation and economic liberalization have been on the Egyptian policy agenda for over 20 years. However, the results have been mixed. Macroeconomic imbalances have been manageable in Egypt. Microeconomic distortion have been persistent, mainly lack of employment…
Family disruption, health hazards, degradation, and physical and psychological abuse are common among migrant female headload porters in Southern Ghana. Microfinance is well-documented as a socioeconomic remedial tool for poor women in some developing economies. Little is known,…
Women's labor force participation rates in Turkey are low by international standards, even when compared to other countries at similar levels of economic development. Moreover, they have remained low since the introduction of export oriented manufacturing which, in many of Turke…
This study begins with the suspicion that the primary reason for the low participation of women in the Yemeni paid labor force is the result of negative attitudes toward women's employment, fostered by tradition and custom. The purpose of the study, is to examine the attitudes o…
This thesis explores the phenomenon of women's informal industrial employment in small-scale, poorly regulated, and labor-intensive textile and garment manufacturing sectors in Egypt. The study examines the macro- and micro context factors that influence the availability of rura…
The world of labor hinted at in DtrH is more complicated than usually thought. Socioeconomic and political decisions (war, distribution of land, pauperization of peasants, remission of debts, manumission of indentured servants) influenced women's lives. Labor in the Ancient Near…
The contemporary institution of live-in domestic service that is increasingly characterized by foreign female domestic workers' (FFDWs) labour has become as important as transnational capital and markets to the Malaysian state's modernity project of building a developed society …
Based on one-hundred-and-twenty extensive interviews with women garment factory workers in Bangladesh, this research examined the impact of independent income earnings on women workers' lives in the context of their families, their fertility decisions and fertility behavior, and…
This dissertation studies the phenomenon of foreign female domestic workers (FFDW) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), within the context of the feminization of migration. It examines the impact of the migration process on the lives of the FFDW, their working conditions, and thei…
Rural women processors are important people in agricultural processing in Nigeria. However, very little has been written about rural women cassava processors participation in agricultural Extension education programs. It is unclear what factors lead these women to participate in…
Since a large number of working women now inhabit the public sphere once impervious to them, the separation and hierarchy of 'separate spheres' have been severely challenged in Bangladesh. As gender norms and ideals develop in space, any restructuring of the spatial organization…
The globalization surge, together with an economic push in Bangladesh for international revenue earning, resulted in the emergence of an export-oriented assembling-manufacturing garment sector based on women's “cheap” labour. Livelihoods of these women labourers from poverty-str…
In the last decade, labor migration of women from the former Soviet Union has grown exponentially. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Moldova, where 1/3 of the population works abroad, most illegally, and where about 1/2 of these migrants are women transnationally "commuting"…
This dissertation aims to show how three institutions, i.e. the family, the labor market and the state have shaped women's work experiences in Mexico and Turkey. Although Mexico and Turkey have certain similarities in terms of economic structure and policies, the socio-cultural …
The purpose of this study was to investigate Saudi people's attitudes toward (1) Saudi women working with men in hospitals regardless of their occupational prestige, (2) Saudi female administrative personnel, (3) Saudi female physicians, (4) Saudi female nurses and (5) admitting…
Lebanese women's labor and social identity underwent several transformations in the context of anticolonial resistance to French rule (1895-1943) and the restructuring of relations among workers, capital and the state from 1943 to 1997. I delineate women's adaptation to industri…
An inscription, in Arabic, on the flyleaf of the Paris Tacuinum Sanitatis gives a somewhat ambiguous account of the book's travels, but states directly: "Its value is in its figures." Nothing could be a truer description of the contribution, to the social study of art history, o…