ABSTRACT
Continuing a Thompsonian and feminist class analysis of İzmir's garment industry, this chapter focuses on its intra-class and intra-gender relationships. It examines the ways in which workers, individually and collectively, experience and understand their class situations, and the ways in which economic, political and cultural formations shape these experiences. More specifically, it looks at the impacts of ethno-cultural identities, the neoliberal labour regime and patriarchal ideologies on social relations at work. On a broad level, it demonstrates that, being determined by the interplays between class, ethno-cultural identities and gender, the intra-class relationships of garment workers in general and intra-gender relationships of women garment workers in particular are multifaceted, manifesting strong competitive and individualistic characteristics in the lack of collective class and feminist struggle, but also including certain levels of solidarity and support.
