Militant minority at work: a successful case of unionisation of garment workers in Istanbul
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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 signed a collective bargaining agreement covering nearly 400 workers. This very rare success rested on two key factors: the efforts of a militant minority and transnational labour solidarity.
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Canadian Journal of Development Studies
Date :
2023-01-02
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44
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1
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Taylor & Francis
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http://hdl.handle.net/10679/8767https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02255189.2022.2100748
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