Transnational Labour Solidarity and Social Movement Unionism: Insights from and beyond a Women Workers' Strike in Turkey

Download
index.pdf
2011-07-01
FOUGNER, TORE
Kurtoglu, Ayca
Show full item record
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
169
views
0
downloads
Through an analysis of solidarity across borders and social groups in connection with and beyond a strike on the part primarily of women workers at a foreign-owned factory in Turkey's Antalya Free Zone, this article contributes to the debate on the two union renewal strategies of transnational labour solidarity and coalition building with social movements. In the case at hand, the extensive strike-related support on the part of external unions and the women's movement illustrates the positive difference that solidarity practices can make. However, looking beyond the strike itself, the case points to significant challenges related to the development of deeper and more proactive solidarity across borders and social groups.
Management of Technology and Innovation, General Business, Management and Accounting, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/65587
BRITISH JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Article

Suggestions

Social identification and altruism in diverse teams
Acar, Feride Pınar (Inderscience Publishers, 2014-01-01)
This paper investigates social identity and altruism in diverse teams. Past research identifies cooperative and altruistic behaviour as essential for team effectiveness. An important question concerns the extent to which individuals, as they interact with demographically dissimilar team members, will display altruism. This question is addressed drawing upon relational demography research and a social identity approach. The present study posits that identification with demographic subgroups within a diverse ...
Causal relationship between construction investment policy and economic growth in Turkey
Ozkan, Filiz; Ozkan, Omer; Gunduz, Murat (Elsevier BV, 2012-02-01)
The construction industry in countries experiencing severe economic crisis has vital importance to get out of stagnation because of its direct relations with 200 different sectors. In this study, the relationship between the construction growth data (infrastructure, building and residential (public), building and residential (private) investment) and gross domestic product (GDP) is examined for Turkey. To this end, Engle-Granger cointegration, error correction model (ECM) and Granger causality tests were ap...
Domestic Social Policy Change due to the Pressures of European Integration: Equality between Women and Men at Work and Women’s Employment Policies in Turkey
Göksel, Asuman (Routledge, 2011-11-01)
This chapter analyses how European integration in one of its most consistent policy spheres has affected the dynamics and outcome of social policy change in Turkey, in the policy fields of equality between women and men at work and women's employment. It argues that the impact of the European integration process on Turkey has been very much mediated by and flowed through the actions of domestic societal actors for the selected policy issues. The chapter employs the Europeanization conceptual framework, whic...
On Multinational Corporations and the Provision of Positive Rights
Parkan, Barış (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2009-01-01)
Increased and active involvement of multinational corporations in the promotion of social welfare, in developing Countries in particular, through the facilitation of partnerships and cooperation with public and nonprofit sectors, challenges the existing framework of our social and political institutions, the boundaries of nation-states, the distinction between the private and public spheres of our lives, and thus Our freedom. The blurring of certain distinctions, which ought to be observed between the polit...
Accomodating Diversity Within Feminism İn Turkey : The Amargi Women’s Cooperative, 2001-2011
Özakın, Ayşe Ülkü; Aslan Akman, Canan; Department of Gender and Women's Studies (2012)
In this thesis, Amargi Women’s Cooperative in Istanbul is studied as an example of diversity feminism in Turkey. Its feminist perspective and challenges faced in realizing its objectives in this context are analyzed based on a description of the process of Amargi’s formation, the course of its activities and the debates within the group and especially the in-depth interviews held with ten volunteers. The group’s accomplishments and problems encountered during the last ten years in its quest for “doing polit...
Citation Formats
T. FOUGNER and A. Kurtoglu, “Transnational Labour Solidarity and Social Movement Unionism: Insights from and beyond a Women Workers’ Strike in Turkey,” BRITISH JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, pp. 0–0, 2011, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/65587.
METU IIS - Integrated Information Service open@metu.edu.tr