This article examines transition in Kocaeli, an industrial city in the north-western part of Turkey, away from left-wing politics and trade unionism in the early 1970s, and toward Islamic politics from the mid-1990s onwards. It does do by investigating the ideological, political, and social transformation of the working class. Based on fieldwork involving in-depth, semistructured interviews conducted with current and former workers and trade union leaders, the article analyzes the various aspects of, and limits to, the hegemonic relationships between workers and left-wing politics on the one hand, and with Islamic politics, on the other.
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Bekmen, A., Öngel, F. S., & Hadiz, V. R. (2020). Contesting Working-Class Politics in Turkey: Social Transformations, Islam, and the Left. Critical Sociology, 46(7–8), 1025–1040. https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920520934171
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