In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-building, and Working-class Politics in Turkey

In the Shadow of War and Empire tells the story of how workers in Turkey, who were recategorised from imperial subjects to citizens, lived and worked through the simultaneous processes of postimperial nation-building and state-led industrialisation, and struggled to be heard amid the thunder of nationalist developmentalism. Front Cover Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword Acknowledgements Maps, Figures and Table Abbreviations Introduction: Postimperial Synchrony: Industrialisation and Nation-Building as Entwined Processes 1 The Story: From Economic Colonialism to Economic Nationalism 2 The Argument: Controlling Labour on and beyond the Shop Floor 3 The Historiography: Industrial Workplace in Global Labour History 4 The Book: Sources, Themes, and Organisation Chapter 1 The “Turkish Manchester”: Factories in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul 1 The Ottoman Military-Industrial Complex 2 Ottoman Industrialisation in the 1840s 3 The Dadian Family 4 The Agro-Industrial Complex 5 The Construction of the Basmahane 6 Labour in State Factories 7 The Demise and Memory of Tanzimat Industrialisation 8 The Bakırköy Factory in the Twentieth Century Chapter 2 A “Home-Grown Plant”: State-Led Industrialisation between Ideology and Empiricism 1 From National Economy to Economic Nationalism 2 Industrial Structure in the 1920s 3 The Search for a Post-depression Economic Policy 4 Etatism and the Politics of Foreign Expertise 5 The First Five-Year Industrial Plan 6 “A Classless, Fused Mass”: Populism and Industrial Labour 7 The Labour Code: Fifteen Years in the Making 8 The 1936 Labour Code: A Regime Law 9 Conclusion Chapter 3 Smokestacks of “Atatürk’s Minarets”: Industrialisation and the Politics of National Space 1 Space, Ideology, and Industrial Site Selection 2 Industrialising Anatolia 3 Consuming Industrial Modernity: State Factories and the Rural-Urban Connection 4 National Planning versus Local Labour Markets 5 “But Where Are the Heroic Turkish Women?” 6 Local Industrial Labour Market in Istanbul 7 Conclusion Chapter 4 The View from the Factory: State-Led Industrialisation as Myth and Ceremony 1 “It Looks Like One of Those Famous American Factories!” 2 Organisational Structure and Managerial Personnel 3 Recruiting and Promoting 4 Wages: Policy, Payment Systems, and Valorisation 5 Wages and the Working Day during the War 6 Labour Discipline 7 Technical Relations and Workers’ Skills 8 Unweaving Leaving 9 How Long Does the Harvest Season Last? 10 The Reasons Behind Discontinuity 11 Industrial Welfare Policy 12 Industrial Welfare Provision during the War 13 Working-Class Housing in Early Republican Istanbul 14 The Move to Gecekondus 15 Conclusion Chapter 5 Voices from the Shop Floor: Politics, Law, and Workplace Industrial Relations 1 The War at the Workplace 2 Postwar Changes in the External Regulation of Labour 3 Questions of Distribution: Mümin versus Management 4 The Investigation 5 Questions of Dignity: Mustafa versus Management 6 A Reverse Order: from İşçi to Amele 7 From the Logic of Escape to the Logic of Control 8 Conclusion Chapter 6 Textures of Struggle: Worker Politicisation from the Shop Floor to the Trade Union 1 A Formative Experience: The First Work Stoppage 2 The Return of the Repressed 3 Weakening the Trade Unions, One Step at a Time 4 Union Structure: Fragmentation, Finances, and Leadership 5 Parties and Politics in the Trade Union Movement 6 What Are Trade Unions For? 7 The Arrest 8 Conclusion Conclusion: Shattering Silence, Deafening Nostalgia: The Legacy of State-Led Industrialisation Bibliography Archival Sources International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam Presidency of the Republic of Turkey Directorate of State Archives Presidency of the Republic of Turkey Supreme Auditory Board Archives Records of the Grand National Assembly of Republic of Turkey The US National Archives and Record Administration Index Back Cover