The simultaneous processes of secular state-building and state-led industrialisation resulted in a new ideology of women's labor in Turkey in the 1930s and the first half of the 1940s. As the country moved away from protectionist, state-led industrialisation in the post-war period, female industrial labor received increasing and contradictory attention from policy makers, employers, the new trade union movement, and middle-class feminists. On the one hand, there emerged an idealized image of factory women that emphasized their productive potential by metaphorically linking them with technology and mass production. However, this proud, progressive message was counterbalanced by an anxious, conservative view of young women's work—one that criticized factory girls’ consumption choices as posing a threat to respectable femininity. Weaving together lines of inquiry such as the change in industrialisation policy, women's access to technology, the sexual division of labor, and the emergent consumption patterns, I unpack the tropes of working-class productivity and femininity against the backdrop of the post-war expansion of capitalism in Turkey.

世俗国家建设和国家主导的工业化的同步进程在 20 世纪 30 年代和 1940 年代上半叶在土耳其产生了新的妇女劳动意识形态。随着战后国家摆脱保护主义、国家主导的工业化，女性工业劳工受到政策制定者、雇主、新工会运动和中产阶级女权主义者越来越多的矛盾关注。一方面，出现了一种理想化的工厂妇女形象，通过隐喻地将她们与技术和大规模生产联系起来，强调她们的生产潜力。然而，这种自豪、进步的信息被对年轻女性工作的焦虑、保守观点所抵消——这种观点批评工厂女孩的消费选择对受人尊敬的女性气质构成威胁。我将工业化政策的变化、妇女获得技术的机会、性别分工以及新兴的消费模式等调查线索编织在一起，在战后土耳其资本主义的扩张。