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This chapter demonstrates the intricate relationship between production, social reproduction, gender and space both from the scale of the city and that of home and work in the everyday lives of mineworkers and their wives in Zonguldak, a coal mining city located on the Black Sea coast of Turkey. While mining labour and mining cities are associated with masculinity and men who are mostly invisible working long hours underground, women and their housework and care work are invisible and devalued although women's unpaid domestic labour is indispensable to the capital maximization. Our objective is to find out how the spatial distinction between underground and aboveground corresponds to the gendered division of labour and how this correspondence, in turn, refers to a gendered distinction between home and the mine. To examine this relationship between gender, space and labour, we employ theoretical approach of feminist geography. For this end, we conducted interviews with mineworkers and their wives. We asked questions about their routines, work and leisure activities, time use and their thoughts on each other's labour. Additionally, our respondents drew maps of their everyday use of the city: where they work and live, where they frequent after work, where they meet their friends, family members/relatives, and coworkers.
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WOS.BHCI
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English
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Home Mining Labour Everyday life Space Zonguldak