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

• Superior document: Studies in Global Social History Series ; v.52
• Author: Akgöz, Görkem.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2023.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Global Social History Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (394 pages)

"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, in the contemporary words of one of the country's most prominent contemporary Marxist theorists, became "the secret to and the basis of Turkish capitalism" in the 1930s"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

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.