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The Seam Line: Arab Workers and Jewish Managers in the Israeli Textile Industry. (Book Reviews).

By Meyerson, Debra
Publication: Administrative Science Quarterly
Date: Saturday, June 1 2002

Israel Drori. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. 278 PP. $18.95, paper.

The Seam Line reports on an organizational ethnography set in the sewing plants of a large Israeli textile company located in Arab and Druse communities in northern Israel. The book beautifully documents the interplay between the culture of the local Arab communities and the culture of the plants that employ women from those communities. The ethnography reveals the complex admixture of cultures as they surface in the workplace and points to the way the surrounding culture shapes, legiti

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