Abstract
The presence of home-based work has experienced a significant rise in recent years thanks to the developments in digital technologies that allow the disconnection of office work from physical locations. What are the consequences of home-based work on women's everyday lives? How do these affect social institutions such as the home, family, and friendship? The project will study home-based work among women knowledge workers and its consequences on their everyday life. The study will be situated in Turkey, a country that is experiencing an important transition toward a knowledge-based economy and is characterized by a growing population of young online freelancers (Dedeoğlu 2020). This shift takes place within a longstanding tradition of women's piecework in the garment and textile industries that has characterized Turkey's formal and informal economy for several decades. The research will contribute to a better understanding of how global processes of digitalization in the sphere of work intersect and are entangled with local processes, histories, and local social formations. It will also contribute to de-westernizing the conversations around the future of work in digital societies.
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