In the Shadow of War and Empire Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey

"In the Shadow of War and Empire offers a site-specific history of Ottoman and Turkish industrialisation through the lens of a mid-nineteenth-century cotton factory in the "Turkish Manchester," the name chosen by the Ottomans for the industrial complex they built in the 1840s, which,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Akgöz, Görkem (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : BRILL 2023.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Studies in Global Social History Series
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Postimperial synchrony : industrialisation and nation-building as entwined processes
  • The "Turkish Manchester" : factories in nineteenth century Istanbul
  • A "home-grown plant" : state-led industrialisation between ideology and empiricism
  • Smokestacks of "Atatürk's minarets" : industrialisation and the politics of national space
  • The view from the factory : State-led industrialisation as myth and ceremony
  • Voices from the shop floor : politics, law, and workplace industrial relations
  • Textures of struggle : worker politicisation from the shop floor to the trade union
  • Conclusion: Shattering silence, deafening nostalgia : the legacy of state-led industrialisation.