Abstract:

The aim of the study is to evaluate the overall profiles of employed women workers through their personal information; internal information for households, subsistence strategies, feeding habits, views of poverty, their hopes, dreams and problems within the family in their own words with the help of selected sample women workers who are employed in the textile sector in Denizli. Original aspect of the study is using method of in-depth interviews and transferring the same statements of persons. The contribution of the study is to reveal women workers struggling to cope and ways of life in poverty, based on the subjective experiences, stories, views and concerns. The most striking result of the study is that despite the efforts of women workers in working life, they are still poor, feeling poor and not showing too much deviation from the other profiles of the poor individuals who are not working. Poverty of women workers is the product of understanding of neoliberal global-market and based on the welfare work.