Extractivism Across Production and Social Reproduction Classes of Labour in Rural Turkey

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Çelik, Coşku.

Series:

Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series

Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series v.307

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Boston BRILL 2024

Summary:

This book examines the political economy of natural resource extraction in the Global South across production and social reproduction, and builds on fieldwork that stretched over six years

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Figures and Tables

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Chapter 1 Introduction

1 A Class-Relational Approach to Labour of Extraction under Neoliberalism

2 Introducing the Field

3 The Design and Method of the Fieldwork

3.1 Semi-structured Interviews

3.2 Focus Group Interviews

3.3 Participant Observation

4 Phases of the Fieldwork

4.1 Phase I (June and July 2015, February 2016)

4.2 Phase II (June-September 2016, March 2017)

4.3 Phase III (July and August 2018)

5 Outline of the Book

Chapter 2 Classes of Extractive Labour across Production and Social Reproduction: Patterns of Dispossession and Class Formation in the Rural Extractive Regions

1 Proletarianization as Primitive Accumulation

2 Ongoing Primitive Accumulation and Gendered Patterns of Proletarianization: A Marxist Feminist Framework

3 The Development of Capitalism in Agriculture and Dispossession of Small-scale Farmers

4 Rural Class Formation across Production and Social Reproduction

5 Conclusion

Chapter 3 Extractivism and Labour Control: Reflections of Turkey's 'Coal Rush' in the Underground Coalmines

1 Controlling and Disciplining the Classes of Extractive Labour: Labour Regime Analysis

2 The Political Economy of Coal Extraction in Neoliberal Turkey

2.1 A Brief History of Neoliberalism in Turkey

2.2 Turkey's 'Coal Rush' under the AKP Rule

3 Historical Background: Coal Extraction in Soma Before the 2000s

4 The Neoliberal Transformation of the Coal Industry in the Soma Coal Basin in the 2000s

5 Labour Supply to the Coal Pits of Soma

6 Coal Rush Underground: Labour Processes in the Coal Pits of Soma

6.1 Firms Operating Mines in the Soma Coal Basin

6.2 Recruitment Processes and the Informal Subcontractors

6.3 The Organization of Work

6.4 Coal Rush Underground: Production Pressure

7 Conclusion

Chapter 4 The Social Reproduction of Extractivism: Gendered Patterns of Dispossession and Women's Work in Rural Turkey

1 The Production and Social Reproduction of the Classes of Extractive Labour

2 The Development of Capitalism in Agriculture in Turkey until the 1980s

3 Neoliberalism in Agriculture and Gendered Patterns of Dispossession and Proletarianization in Turkey

4 Agrarian Change, Patterns of Dispossession, and Livelihood Diversification in the Soma Coal Basin

5 Women's Work in the Soma Coal Basin

5.1 Labour Processes and Working Conditions of Women in Agriculture

5.2 The Social Reproduction of Miner Families: Unpaid Work of Miners' Wives

6 Conclusion

Chapter 5 The Soma Mine Disaster, Labour Control in the Sphere of Social Reproduction, and Moments of Resistance

1 Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Extractivism

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record

2 The Soma Mine Disaster and Its Prosecution Process

Other Format:

Print version Çelik, Coşku Extractivism Across Production and Social Reproduction

ISBN:

9789004714410

9004714413

OCLC:

1474243228

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