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Women’s labor and the functionality of this labor in the global production chain have been done many research in both Turkey and the world White 2015 Eraydin and Erendil 1999 Dedeoğlu 2007 Dedeoğlu 2010 Bair 2010 Freeman 2001 Mills 2003 . These studies, in general, focused on the fact that women’s labour is seen as a “ cheap”, “natural” labour force in terms of global capital, the importance for capitalist accumulation and the patriarchal structure’s partnerships with capitalism. Salzinger also repeated these topics in his work, but in addition to them, he made a significant contribution to literature by paying attention to the subject of gender-based characteristics and the production of workers in the factory. Although Salzinger’s work is not new, it is not much known in Turkey and is not much used in work on women’s labour. In this regard, the presentation of the work to the reader in Turkey is of great importance. In particular, the studies conducted after the 1980s focused on issues such as the importance of cheap labour supplied by women in export-based economies, the increasing rate of women’s participation in the global production chain and the importance of labour market and employment for developing countries. Factory dynamics and interaction forms, gender-based behavior norms attributed to women have not been problematized in these studies and how these norms appear in the local place have been ignored. Salzinger’s work goes into the workplace and analyzes gender during production.