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In the shadow of war and empire : industrialisation, nation-building, and working-class politics in Turkey / Görkem Akgöz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Akgöz, Görkem, author.
- Series:
- Studies in global social history ; Volume 52.
- Studies in Global Social History Series ; Volume 52
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bakırköy Bez Fabrikası.
- Industrial relations--Turkey--History.
- Industrial relations.
- Industrialization--Turkey--History.
- Industrialization.
- Textile workers--Turkey--Istanbul--History.
- Textile workers.
- Industrial policy--Turkey.
- Industrial policy.
- Turkey--Economic conditions--1288-1918.
- Turkey.
- Turkey--Economic conditions--1918-1960.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (394 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Brill 2023
- Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2024]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "In the Shadow of War and Empire offers a site-specific history of Ottoman and Turkish industrialisation through the lens of a mid-nineteenth-century cotton factory in the "Turkish Manchester," the name chosen by the Ottomans for the industrial complex they built in the 1840s, which, in the contemporary words of one of the country's most prominent contemporary Marxist theorists, became "the secret to and the basis of Turkish capitalism" in the 1930s"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Postimperial synchrony : industrialisation and nation-building as entwined processes
- The "Turkish Manchester" : factories in nineteenth century Istanbul
- A "home-grown plant" : state-led industrialisation between ideology and empiricism
- Smokestacks of "Atatürk's minarets" : industrialisation and the politics of national space
- The view from the factory : State-led industrialisation as myth and ceremony
- Voices from the shop floor : politics, law, and workplace industrial relations
- Textures of struggle : worker politicisation from the shop floor to the trade union
- Conclusion: Shattering silence, deafening nostalgia : the legacy of state-led industrialisation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9789004687141
- 9004687149
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