Description
Book SynopsisThis book explores how Arab workers (mainly women) and Jewish managers in the Israeli textile industry negotiate the terms and meanings of factory work. It examines the tension between traditional familial and social roles and the demands of industrial life, as well as the complications created by Arab-Jewish political and military conflict.
Trade Review"Drori's book is a useful addition to the literature of a largely neglected, but important subject." --
Journal of Palestine Studies"The book beautifully documents the interplay between the culture of the local Arab communities and the culture of the plants that employ women from those communities. . . . Drori does a masterful job of showing how the local Arab culture enters into the workplace to shape the nature of social relations, norms, expectations, and values. . . .
The Seam Line is a wonderful ethnography situated in a rich setting." --
Administrative Science Quarterly"A significant contribution to the literature in organizational ethnography." --
Work and OccupationsTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Methods: reflections on the field 3. On factory daughters and the culture of the workplace 4. The sewing plants: scenes from the social arena 5. The seamstresses: in motion toward reconstructing work and life 6. The supervisors: go betweens 7. The managers: embodying a double system 8. Out with the old and in with the Hi-Tex 9. Conclusion Notes References Index.
