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LABOUR & INDUSTRY, vol.35, no.3, pp.1-21, 2025 (ESCI, Scopus)
This article aims to explore how the transition from traditional to industrial modes of production takes place in the weaving sector in Gaziantep, Turkey. The research is based on semi-structured interviews with weaving masters, a factory owner, a manager, and a designer. We integrate institutional logics and practice architecture theory, using it as both an empirical and theoretical lens to analyse how production space, including working relations, conditions, job satisfaction, and the production tools’ transformation occur and is experienced in practice. We argue that the transition to industrial production is a negotiated process through which a hybrid production space is created where different logics coexist. Practice architectures occasionally preserve the practice memory associated with cultural patterns, perpetuating traditional discourses, actions, and relationships, while at other practices aligning them with market logic. The analysis shows that while production space, tools, conditions, and job satisfaction are reshaped by market and bureaucratic logic; recruitment, job learning, skills, and control remain informed by traditional ways through family, institutional and community logic. In this sense, we move beyond linear narratives of industrialisation and consider transformation as a hybrid process enabling and constraining what is done, said, and related through interconnected material-economic, cultural-discursive, and social-political arrangements.