Israel Drori The Seam Line Hardcover | sku-794063698

Israel Drori's hardcover book The Seam Line: Arab Workers and Jewish Managers in the Israeli Textile Industry is listed under Middle Eastern History Books. Drawing on five years of ethnographic research, it examines export-oriented textile factories owned by multinational corporations in Arab communities in Israel's Galilee region.

Jewish managers employ local Arab and Druse women as seamstresses and lower-level supervisors. The book looks at how managers and workers negotiate factory practices alongside community norms, including tensions around family roles, women's work and Arab-Jewish relations. It describes unequal power in both local patriarchal customs and factory management.

Managers adapt to community rules and use family values to encourage loyalty, while workers use factory work to develop independence and status and press managers to accommodate their needs. SKU: sku-794063698.