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7 - Labor Discontent

from Part II - Everyday Politics of Urban Labor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2021

Murat Metinsoy
Affiliation:
Istanbul Üniversitesi
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This chapter examines the working people’s critical opinions regarding social and economic matters ranging from poor wages, bad working conditions, bad treatment by employers, arbitrary firing, sexual harassment, work accidents and lack of social and job security due to the high cost of living. It shows how the working people in urban areas thought subjectively according to their interests rather than believing in the official propaganda, which depicted the Turkish nation as a “classless, harmonious, unified people.” It also surveys the ways the working people expressed their views and the discursive strategies they used to articulate and to legitimate their own complaints and demands.

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The Power of the People
Everyday Resistance and Dissent in the Making of Modern Turkey, 1923-38
, pp. 138 - 151
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Labor Discontent
  • Murat Metinsoy, Istanbul Üniversitesi
  • Book: The Power of the People
  • Online publication: 24 December 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009025775.009
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  • Labor Discontent
  • Murat Metinsoy, Istanbul Üniversitesi
  • Book: The Power of the People
  • Online publication: 24 December 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009025775.009
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  • Labor Discontent
  • Murat Metinsoy, Istanbul Üniversitesi
  • Book: The Power of the People
  • Online publication: 24 December 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009025775.009
Available formats
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