Birelma, Alpkan2023-09-072023-09-072023-01-020225-5189http://hdl.handle.net/10679/8767https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2022.2100748This 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.engrestrictedAccessarticle44111313000083292580000110.1080/02255189.2022.2100748Garment workersLabour unionsMilitant minorityTransnational labour solidarityTurkey2-s2.0-85135182300