ABSTRACT
Women have always played a crucial role in social reproduction throughout all modes of productions, including the capitalist mode. However, with the rise of capitalism, women's reproductive activities started to involve different social relations from those of men, and ceased to be seen as “real” work. This chapter discusses the particular ways that workers experience and understand their class situations and the relationships between different forms of oppression, that is, class, gender and ethnicity. The informalisation of labour in general in Turkey has gone hand in hand with the informalisation of women's labour and the reinforcement of patriarchal norms. The subordination and exploitation of women in the productive and reproductive realms co-determine and stimulate each other as the capitalist-patriarchal relations of production and social reproduction are in a co-constitutive relation at both the macro and micro levels. The chapter also presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book.
