CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Arican, Yunus Furkan |
|---|---|
| Title | The Politics of the Organizing the 'Unorganized' in Turkey |
| Summary | This thesis addresses the issue of the politics of protection of the sub-contracted workers in Turkey. Starting from the tension between marketization and protection, this thesis uses Polanyian approach to shed light on the modes of embedding the economy in society in the face of marketization. Focusing substantially on the period of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, known as an Islamic neoliberal political party, this thesis, firstly claims that the AKP has opted for embedding the economy in society by reconciling its Islamic identity with its neoliberal outlook. This has resulted in growing importance of reciprocity relations between the government and government-favoured trade unions, indicating a blurring of the boundaries between industrial and political realms. This thesis then shifts its focus to trade unions and provides an analysis of the tension and harmonization between unions’ interests and identities. This thesis argues that harmonization between identity and interest strengthens the reciprocal characteristic of the politics and grants privilege to certain trade unions. Moreover, the tension turns government-favoured unions into veto players, who act against the government in the face of clash of interests. By taking actor-centred institutionalism (ACI) as its main methodology, this thesis situates actors into an institutional environment, wherein labour markets have been segmented increasingly, and looks at their responses, which are embedded in societal relations. |
| Supervisor | Anil Duman |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/arican_yunus.pdf |
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