ABSTRACT
The main aim of this study is to analyse how women use their labor in the production and reproduction processes against poverty. Moreover, it is examined whether there is an important difference among women’s poverty experiences in terms of different labor categories regular, irregular income earner women and housewives . Woman’s poverty is conceptualized as double devalorization of woman’s labor in the production and reproduction processes. This examination depends on the survey which was conducted with 105 women who are housewives, regular and irregular income earner. According to research results, women’s welfare level and forms of labour used against poverty are just a matter of degree in terms of different labor categories. However, all women have spent intensive labour in order to decrease the living costs in the reproduction process
Keywords : Woman’s Poverty, Production, Reproduction, Devalorization of Woman’s Labour.