Publication: The stubborn persistence of working-class protest in Turkey in an age of authoritarian neoliberalism
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Birelma, Alpkan
Isikli, Ebru
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Under authoritarian neoliberalism, Turkey has seen the number of legal strikes plummet since the mid-1990s. Alongside deepening authoritarianism, the AKP government banned nearly all legal strikes in the 2010s. How have working-class protests fared against this bleak backdrop? Have workers become pliant victims of a repressive regime of accumulation? Or is there evidence of fight left in the Turkish working class? This article addresses these questions through protest event analysis (PEA) of an original dataset of working-class protests between 2015 and 2019. Workers are found to have managed to maintain a significant protest performance despite the increasingly authoritarian environment.
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Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Area Studies
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Turkish Studies
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10.1080/14683849.2023.2285508