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Militant minority at work: a successful case of unionisation of garment workers in Istanbul

Title	Militant minority at work: a successful case of unionisation of garment workers in Istanbul
Author	Birelma, Alpkan
Publication Date:	2023-01-02
Publication Place	- Taylor & Francis
Subject	Garment workers, Labour unions, Militant minority, Transnational labour solidarity, Turkey
Type	Periodical
Language	English
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Library:	Özyeğin University
Library Asset ID	0225-5189
Record ID	3427889a-9bb6-49eb-b4c3-d0852d9ba67e
Library Location	Humanities and Social Sciences
Date	2023-01-02
Sample Text	This article explores a successful unionisation struggle among garment workers in Istanbul. In the last four decades, Turkey has become a global showcase of authoritarian anti-labour neoliberalism and one of the world’s top garment and textile exporters. The latter has come at the cost of worker exploitation and precarity. Such conditions led a group of knitting workers to unionise at the beginning of the 2010s. After five years of struggle, they signed a collective bargaining agreement covering nearly 400 workers. This very rare success rested on two key factors: the efforts of a militant minority and transnational labour solidarity.
DOI	10.1080/02255189.2022.2100748
Cilt	44

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Militant minority at work: a successful case of unionisation of garment workers in Istanbul

Author Birelma, Alpkan

Publication Date 2023-01-02

Publication Place - Taylor & Francis

Subject Garment workers, Labour unions, Militant minority, Transnational labour solidarity, Turkey

Type Periodical

Language English

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Library Özyeğin University

Library Asset ID 0225-5189

Record ID 3427889a-9bb6-49eb-b4c3-d0852d9ba67e

Library Location Humanities and Social Sciences

Date 2023-01-02

Sample Text This article explores a successful unionisation struggle among garment workers in Istanbul. In the last four decades, Turkey has become a global showcase of authoritarian anti-labour neoliberalism and one of the world’s top garment and textile exporters. The latter has come at the cost of worker exploitation and precarity. Such conditions led a group of knitting workers to unionise at the beginning of the 2010s. After five years of struggle, they signed a collective bargaining agreement covering nearly 400 workers. This very rare success rested on two key factors: the efforts of a militant minority and transnational labour solidarity.

DOI 10.1080/02255189.2022.2100748

Cilt 44