Browsing Department of Humanities and Social Sciences by OzU Authors "Birelma, Alpkan"
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Beyond headscarf culture in Turkey's retail sector
Birelma, Alpkan (Cambridge University Press, 2016) -
Militant minority at work: a successful case of unionisation of garment workers in Istanbul
Birelma, Alpkan (Taylor & Francis, 2023-01-02)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 ... -
Some thoughts on class and class struggle as evoked by Durrenberger and Doukas’ article
Birelma, Alpkan (Springer Nature, 2018-03)N/A -
The stubborn persistence of working-class protest in Turkey in an age of authoritarian neoliberalism
Birelma, Alpkan; Işıklı, E.; Sert, H. D. (Taylor & Francis, 2024)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 ... -
Subcontracted employment and the labor movement’s response in turkey
Birelma, Alpkan (University Press of Colorado, 2017)N/A -
When local class unionism meets international solidarity: A case of union revitalisation in Turkey
Birelma, Alpkan (McMaster University, 2018)The article concerns the recent transformation and ensuing successes of a Turkish trade union of road transport workers called Tum Tasima Iscileri Sendikasi (TUMTIS). In the mid-2000s, TUMTIS was mainly organised in ... -
Working-class entrepreneurialism: Perceptions, aspirations, and experiences of petty entrepreneurship among male manual workers in Turkey
Birelma, Alpkan (Cambridge University Press, 2019-11)This article examines working-class entrepreneurialism in Turkey from a comparative perspective. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a working-class neighborhood of Istanbul, the article focuses on the perceptions, ...
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