THEO NICHOLS is Distinguished Research Professor, Cardiff University. He has written on a wide variety of subjects in the general field of economic sociology. Over the last decade he has actively researched and written on aspects of economic development and social structure in Turkey, often with Nadir Sugur.NADIR SUGUR is Professor of Sociology at Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey, and was formerly Research Fellow at Cardiff University. He is co-editor of Work and Occupation in Modern Turkey (with Erol Kahveci and Theo Nichols) and has written widely on aspects of industrial organizations and work in modern Turkey.

'This book offers penetrating insight into both the benefits and problems of paid work in modern manufacturing in the South. More particularly, it provides the first systematic account of workers' lives in the new Turkey, based on rich case studies of how workers get work, feel about work, operate under modern management methods and deal with local conditions, such as repressive trade unionism. This is highly readable, painstakingly researched and strongly recommended book for all those who want to know how working lives in the new manufacturing are being remade on the global assembly line.' - Chris Smith, Professor of Organisation Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London 'Nichols and Sugur have written a well-crafted, empirically grounded, challenging study.' - John Eldridge, University of Glasgow, UK

• Introduction PART 1: HELLO TO THE FACTORY A General Account PART 2: SPECIFICITIES: GENDER AND ETHNICITY Women Workers in Textiles Muhacir Bulgarians PART 3: THE WORLD OF TQM Management and its Practices TQM from Above The View from Below PART 4: TRADE UNIONISM State, Law and Trade Unionism Union Autocracy, Mechanisms and Contradictions PART 5: SIGNS OF CHANGE Modernity and Younger Workers The Future of Workers in the Modern Sector