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White-Collar Blues : The Making of the Transnational Turkish Middle Class.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yavaş, Mustafa.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Quality of work life--Turkey.
- Quality of work life.
- Work-life balance--Turkey.
- Work-life balance.
- Middle class--Turkey.
- Middle class.
- American Dream.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1161 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- White-Collar Blues follows the Turkish members of the global elite workforce as they are selected into, survive within, and opt out of coveted employment at transnational corporations.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: White-Collar Blues?
- 1. Transnational Corporations and Remaking the Turkish Middle Class
- 2. Becoming Elite Workers
- 3. Disappointed and Exhausted
- 4. White-Collar Opt-Out
- Conclusion: Rethinking Alienation and Middle-Class Formation in the Age of Globalization
- Methodological Appendix: Studying Elite Workers
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-231-55993-3
- OCLC:
- 1519122585
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