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

Front Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Maps, Figures and Table
Abbreviations
Introduction: Postimperial Synchrony: Industrialisation and Nation-Building as Entwined Processes
	1 The Story: From Economic Colonialism to Economic Nationalism
	2 The Argument: Controlling Labour on and beyond the Shop Floor
	3 The Historiography: Industrial Workplace in Global Labour History
	4 The Book: Sources, Themes, and Organisation
Chapter 1 The “Turkish Manchester”: Factories in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul
	1 The Ottoman Military-Industrial Complex
	2 Ottoman Industrialisation in the 1840s
	3 The Dadian Family
	4 The Agro-Industrial Complex
	5 The Construction of the Basmahane
	6 Labour in State Factories
	7 The Demise and Memory of Tanzimat Industrialisation
	8 The Bakırköy Factory in the Twentieth Century
Chapter 2 A “Home-Grown Plant”: State-Led Industrialisation between Ideology and Empiricism
	1 From National Economy to Economic Nationalism
	2 Industrial Structure in the 1920s
	3 The Search for a Post-depression Economic Policy
	4 Etatism and the Politics of Foreign Expertise
	5 The First Five-Year Industrial Plan
	6 “A Classless, Fused Mass”: Populism and Industrial Labour
	7 The Labour Code: Fifteen Years in the Making
	8 The 1936 Labour Code: A Regime Law
	9 Conclusion
Chapter 3 Smokestacks of “Atatürk’s Minarets”: Industrialisation and the Politics of National Space
	1 Space, Ideology, and Industrial Site Selection
	2 Industrialising Anatolia
	3 Consuming Industrial Modernity: State Factories and the Rural-Urban Connection
	4 National Planning versus Local Labour Markets
	5 “But Where Are the Heroic Turkish Women?”
	6 Local Industrial Labour Market in Istanbul
	7 Conclusion
Chapter 4 The View from the Factory: State-Led Industrialisation as Myth and Ceremony
	1 “It Looks Like One of Those Famous American Factories!”
	2 Organisational Structure and Managerial Personnel
	3 Recruiting and Promoting
	4 Wages: Policy, Payment Systems, and Valorisation
	5 Wages and the Working Day during the War
	6 Labour Discipline
	7 Technical Relations and Workers’ Skills
	8 Unweaving Leaving
	9 How Long Does the Harvest Season Last?
	10 The Reasons Behind Discontinuity
	11 Industrial Welfare Policy
	12 Industrial Welfare Provision during the War
	13 Working-Class Housing in Early Republican Istanbul
	14 The Move to Gecekondus
	15 Conclusion
Chapter 5 Voices from the Shop Floor: Politics, Law, and Workplace Industrial Relations
	1 The War at the Workplace
	2 Postwar Changes in the External Regulation of Labour
	3 Questions of Distribution: Mümin versus Management
	4 The Investigation
	5 Questions of Dignity: Mustafa versus Management
	6 A Reverse Order: from İşçi to Amele
	7 From the Logic of Escape to the Logic of Control
	8 Conclusion
Chapter 6 Textures of Struggle: Worker Politicisation from the Shop Floor to the Trade Union
	1 A Formative Experience: The First Work Stoppage
	2 The Return of the Repressed
	3 Weakening the Trade Unions, One Step at a Time
	4 Union Structure: Fragmentation, Finances, and Leadership
	5 Parties and Politics in the Trade Union Movement
	6 What Are Trade Unions For?
	7 The Arrest
	8 Conclusion
Conclusion: Shattering Silence, Deafening Nostalgia: The Legacy of State-Led Industrialisation
Bibliography
	Archival Sources
		International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
		Presidency of the Republic of Turkey Directorate of State Archives
		Presidency of the Republic of Turkey Supreme Auditory Board Archives
		Records of the Grand National Assembly of Republic of Turkey
		The US National Archives and Record Administration
Index
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