In the Shadow of War and Empire : Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey

• Autore: Akgöz Görkem
• Pubblicazione: Boston : , : BRILL, , 2023; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (394 pages)
• Disciplina: 330.94961/8
• Soggetto topico: Industrial relations - Turkey - History; Industrialization - Turkey - History; Textile workers - Turkey - Istanbul - History; Industrial policy - Turkey
• Soggetto geografico: Turkey Economic conditions 1288-1918; Turkey Economic conditions 1918-1960
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: In the shadow of war and empire
• ISBN: 90-04-68714-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910838176603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in Global Social History Series