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Evaluating social movement impacts : comparative lessons from the labor movement in Turkey /

Some social movements bring in quick, radical political and social changes while others get incorporated into existing systems or subjected to harsh repression. This book examines why social movements elicit different policy responses and their varying impact on the societies in which they occur. It...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mello, Brian Jason (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Title Page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction: The Impact of Alternative Collective Subjectivities; Toward a cultural analysis of movement impacts; Alternative collective subjectivities and the cultural analysis of movement impacts; Measuring collective subjectivity and impact; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 2 Collective Subjectivity and Divergences in the Shaping of State-Labor Relations in Great Britain and the United States; From the factory to the house of commons
  • The labor movement in Great Britain.
  • Exceptionalism and collective subjectivity in the American labor movementConclusion; Notes; Chapter 3 Dreams of Solidarity: Populism and State-Building without Class Antagonism; Populism in the era of single-party rule (1923-46); Populism and the transition to multiparty politics (1946-60); Türk-İş and the growth of working class organizational strength; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 4 Recognition and Redistribution: The Politics and Impact of Labor Insurgency in Turkey, 1960-80; Political process and the emergence of labor insurgency; The rise of an alternative collective subjectivity.
  • (Re)Evaluating the impact of the turkish labor movementNotes; Chapter 5 Democracy and Economic Justice: Labor Activism and Contemporary Turkish Politics1; The resurgence of political unionism; The "Kurdish question" reconsidered; From socialism to Islamic politics; Conclusion: Continuities in contemporary Turkish politics; Notes; Chapter 6 Japan, Turkey, and the Comparative Analysis of Social Movement Impacts; "Give us rice," "give us peace": The impact of labor radicalism in Japan; Labor activism and the shaping of state-society relations in Japan and Turkey.
  • Alternative collective subjectivities and the study of social movementsNormative implications: Alternative collective subjectivities and democracy; Notes; Bibliography; Index.