| Description |
1 online resource (173 pages) |
| Contents |
Abbreviations; List of Figures; Chapter 1: The Increasing Relevance of the Working Class: Global Movements and the Case of Turkey; Introduction; Outline of the Book; The Global Awakening of the Working Class After the 2007-2008 Crisis; Popular Unrest and the Relevance of the Working Class in Turkey; Review and Discussion; Note; References; Chapter 2: The Combined and Uneven Development of Class Capacities in Pre-Neoliberal Turkey; Introduction; Trotsky's Theory of Combined and Uneven Development: Assessing Class Capacities in Early Twentieth Century Russia |
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Combined and Uneven Development of Structural Class Capacities: Turkey from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth CenturyCombined and Uneven Development of Organizational Class Capacities in the Late Ottoman and Early Republican Turkey; Review and Discussion; References; Chapter 3: Turkey's Neoliberal Restructuring and Class Capacities: A Macro-Level Assessment from a Combined and Uneven Development Perspective; Introduction; Crisis of the Import Substitution Model and Turkey's Transition to Neoliberalism: A Historical Account |
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Trade Liberalization and Class Capacities in the Aftermath of the 1980 Military CoupFinancial Liberalization, Privatization, and Decreasing Class Capacities in the Neoliberal Era; Flexibilization of Labour Markets, Neoliberal Social Policies, and Class Capacities; Review and Discussion; References; Chapter 4: A Bottom-Up Approach to the Combined Development of Working-Class Capacities in Turkey: Privatization, Flexibilization, and Union Responses; Introduction; Political Repression, Privatization, and De-Unionization in the Neoliberal Era |
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Flexibilization of Labour Relations, Privatization, and Union ResponsesReview and Discussion; Reference; Chapter 5: The Uneven Development of Working-Class Capacities in Turkey: Clientelism, Paternalism, and Politics of Identity; Introduction; The Colonization of Trade Unions Under the AKP Regime: Contextualizing Clientelism and Paternalism in Turkey's Union Relations; Politics of Identity and the Undermining of Organizational Class Capacities in Turkey: The Role of Islamo-Conservatism and Kurdish Nationalism; Review and Discussion; References |
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Chapter 6: Turkey's Social Unionism from a Combined and Uneven Development Approach: Labour Flexibility and Working-Class IdentitiesIntroduction; The Combined Development of Class Capacities in Social Unionism: Labour Flexibilization and Neoliberal Agriculture in Context; The Uneven Development of Class Capacities and Challenges of Social Unionism; Review and Discussion; References; Chapter 7: Conclusion; Index |
| Summary |
This book provides a political, economic, and sociological investigation of how neoliberalism shapes 'working class capacities, ' or the power of the working class to organize and struggle for its collective interests. Efe Can Gürcan and Berk Mete discuss the global importance of the labor question as it pertains to Turkey. They apply the main theoretical framework of the combined and uneven development of class capacities to Turkish trade unionism. They also address Turkey's recent history of neoliberalization and its repercussions for class capacities, as mediated by national regulations, conservative unionism, and Islamic social assistance networks. Finally, the authors explore how neoliberalism generates intra-class fragmentation through public regulatory mechanisms and cultural differentiation in the sphere of social unionism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 28, 2017) |
| Subject |
Labor unions -- Turkey
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
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Labor unions
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Turkey
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783319482842 |
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331948284X |
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