‘I am here’: women workers’ experiences at the former Cibali Tekel Tobacco and Cigarette Factory in Istanbul

Selen, Eser; O’Neil, Mary Lou

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2017.1372389

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“…One of the earliest politicised forms of such agency can be found in the tobacco industry during the late 19th century (Nacar, 2014: 533–536; Nacar, 2014a; Selen and O’neil, 2017). 3 As a rapidly growing export sector serving the world market, major Ottoman cities such as Kavala, Iskece, Salonica, Samsun and Istanbul saw the opening of numerous warehouses where ‘male and female, local and migrant, Muslim and non-Muslim workers laboured and socialised side by side’ (Nacar, 2014: 536).…”

Section: Class Gender Ethnicity Migration and Politicization In The Late Ottoman Periodmentioning

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“…In her in-depth archival research on the workers’ livelihoods and struggles in Kavala and Iskece, Nacar (2014: 538) emphasises the ‘gendered hierarchies’ of the warehouse work in these cities where men, women and family members worked together – unlike in the Cibali factory in Istanbul where workplace was sex-segregated (Nacar, 2014a: 209; Selen and O’Neil, 2017: 1170). As many workers were seasonal migrants, they remained destitute and vulnerable to exploitation by export merchants and usurers in the remainder of the year (Nacar, 2014: 537).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Against austerity and repression: Historical and contemporary manifestations of progressive politicisation in Turkey

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This paper aims to explore the growing and deepening trend of politics of repression coupled with prolonged crisis and austerity politics, reflecting on the potentials as well as limitations of progressive politics in such a constrained context. Austerity policies continue pushing for anti-labour and reactionary politics in a variety of forms reflecting the unresolved crisis conditions of contemporary capitalism. While the liberal democratic state-form remains relatively intact in particular contexts, in others, it gradually evolves into repressive forms. The growing repression risks conceiving the anti-authoritarian struggles and the anti-capitalist and labour movements separate and/or mutually exclusive. This review article draws on the recent insights of (de)politicization, labour geography and history and political economy scholarships with specific reference to the case of Turkey while cautioning against the binary thinking of ‘success’ and ‘failure’ in leftist and labour mobilisations. It proposes a historical perspective in order to appreciate the diversity and multiplicity of struggles against the intersecting nodes of austerity, capitalism and repression in the complex geographies of periphery.

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Section: Class Gender Ethnicity Migration and Politicization In The Late Ottoman Periodmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Class Gender Ethnicity Migration and Politicization In The Late Ottoman Periodmentioning

confidence: 99%

Against austerity and repression: Historical and contemporary manifestations of progressive politicisation in Turkey

Dönmez

2020

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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‘I am here’: women workers’ experiences at the former Cibali Tekel Tobacco and Cigarette Factory in Istanbul

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Against austerity and repression: Historical and contemporary manifestations of progressive politicisation in Turkey

Against austerity and repression: Historical and contemporary manifestations of progressive politicisation in Turkey

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