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Computer-aided Manufacturing and Women’s Employment: The Clothing Industry in Four EC Countries pp 125–137Cite as

An Aspect of Informalisation of Women’s Work in a High-Tech Age: Turkish Sweatshops in the Netherlands

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Nearly half of the clothing output in Amsterdam comes from Turkish sweatshops which make use either of illegal foreign workers or of legal but unemployed Turkish, Moroccan and black African women and men. While the designing of garments is carried out with computer-aided machines on the main factory floors, it is the cheap, undeclared labour of ethnic contract clothing firms that provide the sought-after flexibility in the assembling stage. In this paper, the author documents the factors that explain the Dutch industry’s heavy reliance on “black” labour in lieu of computers.

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  1. Roeland van Geuns
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  1. Brighton Business School, Brighton Polytechnic, Mithras House, Lewes Road, BN2 4AT, Brighton, UK

    Swasti Mitter

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van Geuns, R. (1992). An Aspect of Informalisation of Women’s Work in a High-Tech Age: Turkish Sweatshops in the Netherlands. In: Mitter, S. (eds) Computer-aided Manufacturing and Women’s Employment: The Clothing Industry in Four EC Countries. Artificial Intelligence and Society. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1837-4_10

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