This book provides a political, economic, and sociological investigation of how neoliberalism shapes working class capacities, or the power of the working class to organize and struggle for its collective interests. Efe Can Gürcan and Berk Mete discuss the global importance of the labor question as it pertains to Turkey. They apply the main theoretical framework of the combined and uneven development of class capacities to Turkish trade unionism. They also address Turkeys recent history of neoliberalization and its repercussions for class capacities, as mediated by national regulations, conservative unionism, and Islamic social assistance networks. Finally, the authors explore how neoliberalism generates intra-class fragmentation through public regulatory mechanisms and cultural differentiation in the sphere of social unionism.
1. The Increasing Relevance of the Working Class: Global Movements and
the Case of Turkey.- 2. The Combined and Uneven Development of Class
Capacities in Pre-Neoliberal Turkey.- 3. Turkeys Neoliberal Restructuring
and Class Capacities: A Macro-Level Assessment from a Combined and Uneven
Development Perspective.- 4. A Bottom-Up Approach to the Combined Development
of Working Class Capacities in Turkey: Privatization, Flexibilization, and
Union Responses.- 5. The Uneven Development of Working Class Capacities in
Turkey: Clientelism, Paternalism, and Politics of Identity.- 6. Turkeys
Social Unionism from a Combined and Uneven Development Approach: Labour
Flexibility and Working Class Identities.-
7. Conclusion.
Efe Can Gürcan is an instructor of Sociology and a PhD candidate in Sociology at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He has published over a dozen articles and book chapters on political economy, international development, and social movements. Berk Mete is pursuing an MSc in Sociology at Maltepe University, Turkey. His thesis concerns workers' autonomy at Kazova, a recuperated textile factory in Turkey.
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