Description
This book explores the wider implications of how low-income moves within and across cities and regions to reach economic opportunities. It does so with a specific focus on women in urban and regional contexts in Turkey. The book reveals specificities and generalisations about mobility patterns of low-paid workers and low-income populations and how these change in the existence of urban and regional interventions, such as industrial zoning, urban transformations and mobility restrictions. It demonstrates how mobility can be extracting as well as inclusive and empowering. The book presents new theorisations of work and mobility through labour agency, showing how mobility is changing the recruitment and use of labour under state interventions. It orchestrates the existing narratives of containment, mobility and rootedness to giving agency to women workers in organising livelihoods. The book particularly acknowledges the multiscale, multifaceted and relational nature of mobilities entailed in the economy by bringing the role of labour agency into urban and regional contexts. This book will appeal to researchers, students and scholars working on economics, labour, feminist geography, mobilities and urban studies.
