The Seam Line: Arab Workers and Jewish Managers in the Israeli Textile Industry

by Israel Drori

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Many Arab communities in Israel's Galilee region are home to export-oriented textile factories, owned by multinational corporations, whose Jewish managers employ local Arab and Druse women as seamstresses and low-level work supervisors. Based on five years of ethnographic research, this book explores how these managers and workers negotiate the terms and meanings of factory work, integrating work culture with the norms and values of the host towns...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0804737878

ISBN13:9780804737876

Release Date:August 2000

Publisher:Stanford University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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