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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795245803321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, UK : , : Pluto Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

0-7453-4315-5

0-7453-4313-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 pages)

Disciplina

321.09

Soggetti

Regime change - Turkey

Working class - Turkey - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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