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Women’s employment in the textile manufacturing sectors of Bangladesh and Morocco
practices particularly abusive and arbitrary, making it very difficult
to establish the “rules of the game”. Interestingly, those firms which
are closest to the artisanal tradition, like the carpet factories, are more
likely to give low wages but this is compensated by the flexibility of
the working hours and an environment that is reminiscent of the
family environment and which is acceptable to them.
Finally, the findings of this study suggest that employment in
itself helps to “emancipate” women, according to their own perception
of emancipation: going out of the house, earning a salary and acquiring
a certain importance that raises their status within the family.
Nevertheless, the social relations and mechanisms which reproduce
gender and class disadvantage within the factory are such that a
genuine emancipation of the women workers does not take place:
indeed, it is circumvented.
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