The condition of the working class in Turkey : labour under neoliberal authoritarianism / Çaatay Edgücan Şahin and Mehmet Erman Erol, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edgücan Şahin, Çaatay, editor.

Erman Erol, Mehmet, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Regime change--Turkey.

Regime change.

Working class--Turkey--History.

Working class.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, UK : Pluto Press, [2021]

Summary:

A comprehensive new study that uncovers the real story of working-class struggle in Turkey.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: Restructuring

Neoliberal Restructuring of Labour and the State: From Military Dictatorship to the AKP Era

1. Not-So-Strange Bedfellows: Neoliberalism and the AKP in Turkey

2. Turkey's Labour Markets Under Neoliberalism: An Overview

3. Commodification and Changing Labour in Turkey: The Working Class in the Public Sector

4. Neoliberal Transformation of Turkey's Health Sector and its Effects on the Health Labour Force

Gender, Migration and Rural Aspects of Neoliberal Restructuring

5. Between Neoliberalism and Conservatism: Recent Developments and New Agendas in Female Labour Policies in Turkey

6. The Making of the Rural Proletariat in Neoliberal Turkey

7. Burden or a Saviour at a Time of Economic Crisis? AKP's 'Open-Door Migration Policy' and its Impact on Labour Market Restructuring in Turkey

Part II: Containment

8. Social Assistance as a Non-Wage Income for the Poor in Turkey: Work and Subsistence Patterns of Social Assistance Recipient Households

9. A View of Precarisation from Turkey: Urban-Rural Dynamics and Intergenerational Precarity

10. When the Law is Not Enough: 'Work Accidents', Profit Maximisation and the Unwritten Rules of Workers' Health and Safety in New Turkey

11. Are We All in the Same Boat? Covid-19 and the Working Class in Turkey

Part III: Resistance

12. Reconsidering Workers' Self-Management in Turkey: From Resistance to Workers' Self-Management Possibilities/Constraints

13. Organised Workers' Struggles Under Neoliberalism: Unions, Capital and the State in Turkey

Notes

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780745343150

0745343155

9780745343136

0745343139

OCLC:

1272990725