ADM4152 DEVELOPMENT OF THE WORKING CLASS IN TURKEY
Course Content
This course focuses on the development of the working class in Turkey. In the first part of the treatment of the proposed course subjects, a preliminary introduction to the major theoretical perspectives on social classes; the major modes of working class organizations, actions and ideologies; and a brief history of the emergence and development of the working class will be realized. However, the main focus of the course will be an exploration of the general and distinctive conditions of the development of the working class, and the major trends in the working class organizations, actions legislations and ideologies in the Ottoman and Republican Turkey in an integrated perspective. Three other areas of the focuses of the treatment of the subject will be on the macro-societal conditions of the working class at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century: (l) the impacts of the scientific-technological revolution, (2) the third crisis of capitalism, and its neoliberal global restructuration (globalization of capitalism) and (3) the capitalist restoration of the etatist-bureauctarictic socialism on the working class movement in the world in general and in Turkey. In the exposition of the treatment of the subject, an integrated use of historical and analytical methods as an appropriate methodological perspective will be applied.
