Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Memleket: Siyaset Ve Yonetim, cilt.19, sa.42, ss.171-188, 2024 (Scopus)
There has been a division between good work and bad work in societies from past to present. Some jobs are prestigious, while others are unattractive in the labor market because they are dirty, dangerous and demanding. However, these jobs still need to be done, and within the framework of the international division of labor, the migrant workforce takes over. In the literature originating from the USA and France, the concept of brown-collar is used for the bad jobs performed by immigrants. In the Turkish literature, the concept takes place in the context of jobs that pollute the environment and ethnicity-based segregation in the labor market. In the study, brown-collar jobs are evaluated in the context of neoliberal cheap labor regime and precarization. The aim of the study is both to explain why the migrant workforce is employed in bad jobs and to discuss the use of the term brown-collar jobs in Turkish literature.