A Birelma
Biographic Data
| ID | 31171 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Birelma |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Birelma |
| SIGNATURE | BIRELMA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Özyeğin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1667-8556 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Militancy without Organisational Outcomes: Turkey’s 2022 Non-legal Strike Wave
While there has been a global rise in right-wing populism and authoritarian rule, there has also been an increase in strikes and other forms of labour militancy across various countries. These twin developments highlight the complex dynamics of contemporary social movements, where economic discontent is fuelling both reactionary politics and renewed activism for workers’ rights. This article discusses a surge in strikes that occurred in Turkey in…
Turkey's Rising Tide of Dissent: Charting the Wave of Non-Legal Strikes in the Mid-2010s
In Turkey, legal strikes have been on the decline since the mid-1990s. This is a trend that has accelerated since the mid-2010s under the ruling Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi as the government increasingly resorted to banning legal strikes against a backdrop of increasing autocratisation. Nevertheless, the country has witnessed non-legal strikes that are neither formally recognised nor documented. The data collated here through a protest event analy…
Barış Alp Özden, Working Class Formation in Turkey, 1946–1962: Work, Culture, and the Politics of the Everyday. New York: Berghahn Books, 2024, 254 pages
The stubborn persistence of working-class protest in Turkey in an age of authoritarian neoliberalism
Under authoritarian neoliberalism, Turkey has seen the number of legal strikes plummet since the mid-1990s. Alongside deepening authoritarianism, the AKP government banned nearly all legal strikes in the 2010s. How have working-class protests fared against this bleak backdrop? Have workers become pliant victims of a repressive regime of accumulation? Or is there evidence of fight left in the Turkish working class? This article addresses these que…
Militant minority at work: A successful case of unionisation of garment workers in Istanbul
This article explores a successful unionisation struggle among garment workers in Istanbul. In the last four decades, Turkey has become a global showcase of authoritarian anti-labour neoliberalism and one of the world’s top garment and textile exporters. The latter has come at the cost of worker exploitation and precarity. Such conditions led a group of knitting workers to unionise at the beginning of the 2010s. After five years of struggle, they…
Working-class entrepreneurialism: Perceptions, aspirations, and experiences of petty entrepreneurship among male manual workers in Turkey
This article examines working-class entrepreneurialism in Turkey from a comparative perspective. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a working-class neighborhood of İstanbul, the article focuses on the perceptions, aspirations, and entrepreneurial attempts of manual workers employed in formal jobs. It aims to contribute to the understudied literature on working-class entrepreneurialism, which is often overlooked or underestimated by the …
Some thoughts on class and class struggle as evoked by Durrenberger and Doukas’ article
Feyda Sayan-Cengiz. Beyond Headscarf Culture in Turkey’s Retail Sector. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, x + 192 pages
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The stubborn persistence of working-class protest in Turkey in an age of authoritarian neoliberalism
Under authoritarian neoliberalism, Turkey has seen the number of legal strikes plummet since the mid-1990s. Alongside deepening authoritarianism, the AKP government banned nearly all legal strikes in the 2010s. How have working-class protests fared against this bleak backdrop? Have workers become pliant victims of a repressive regime of accumulation? Or is there evidence of fight left in the Turkish working class? This article addresses these que…
Working-class entrepreneurialism: Perceptions, aspirations, and experiences of petty entrepreneurship among male manual workers in Turkey
This article examines working-class entrepreneurialism in Turkey from a comparative perspective. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a working-class neighborhood of İstanbul, the article focuses on the perceptions, aspirations, and entrepreneurial attempts of manual workers employed in formal jobs. It aims to contribute to the understudied literature on working-class entrepreneurialism, which is often overlooked or underestimated by the …
Militant minority at work: A successful case of unionisation of garment workers in Istanbul
This article explores a successful unionisation struggle among garment workers in Istanbul. In the last four decades, Turkey has become a global showcase of authoritarian anti-labour neoliberalism and one of the world’s top garment and textile exporters. The latter has come at the cost of worker exploitation and precarity. Such conditions led a group of knitting workers to unionise at the beginning of the 2010s. After five years of struggle, they…
Feyda Sayan-Cengiz. Beyond Headscarf Culture in Turkey’s Retail Sector. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, x + 192 pages
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Some thoughts on class and class struggle as evoked by Durrenberger and Doukas’ article
Working-class entrepreneurialism: Perceptions, aspirations, and experiences of petty entrepreneurship among male manual workers in Turkey
This article examines working-class entrepreneurialism in Turkey from a comparative perspective. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a working-class neighborhood of İstanbul, the article focuses on the perceptions, aspirations, and entrepreneurial attempts of manual workers employed in formal jobs. It aims to contribute to the understudied literature on working-class entrepreneurialism, which is often overlooked or underestimated by the …
The stubborn persistence of working-class protest in Turkey in an age of authoritarian neoliberalism
Under authoritarian neoliberalism, Turkey has seen the number of legal strikes plummet since the mid-1990s. Alongside deepening authoritarianism, the AKP government banned nearly all legal strikes in the 2010s. How have working-class protests fared against this bleak backdrop? Have workers become pliant victims of a repressive regime of accumulation? Or is there evidence of fight left in the Turkish working class? This article addresses these que…
Militant minority at work: A successful case of unionisation of garment workers in Istanbul
This article explores a successful unionisation struggle among garment workers in Istanbul. In the last four decades, Turkey has become a global showcase of authoritarian anti-labour neoliberalism and one of the world’s top garment and textile exporters. The latter has come at the cost of worker exploitation and precarity. Such conditions led a group of knitting workers to unionise at the beginning of the 2010s. After five years of struggle, they…
Barış Alp Özden, Working Class Formation in Turkey, 1946–1962: Work, Culture, and the Politics of the Everyday. New York: Berghahn Books, 2024, 254 pages
Turkey's Rising Tide of Dissent: Charting the Wave of Non-Legal Strikes in the Mid-2010s
In Turkey, legal strikes have been on the decline since the mid-1990s. This is a trend that has accelerated since the mid-2010s under the ruling Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi as the government increasingly resorted to banning legal strikes against a backdrop of increasing autocratisation. Nevertheless, the country has witnessed non-legal strikes that are neither formally recognised nor documented. The data collated here through a protest event analy…
Militancy without Organisational Outcomes: Turkey’s 2022 Non-legal Strike Wave
While there has been a global rise in right-wing populism and authoritarian rule, there has also been an increase in strikes and other forms of labour militancy across various countries. These twin developments highlight the complex dynamics of contemporary social movements, where economic discontent is fuelling both reactionary politics and renewed activism for workers’ rights. This article discusses a surge in strikes that occurred in Turkey in…
Political science (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Authoritarianism (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (3 works) · Class conflict (2 works) · Democracy (2 works)