Worker's control experiences and discussion in Turkey

Deniz  Gürler

doi:10.36311/2675-3871.2024.v5n11.p190-211

Authors

Deniz Gürler

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36311/2675-3871.2024.v5n11.p190-211

Keywords:

working class struggles in Turkey, social and solidarity economy, workers control

Abstract

The first examples of workers' control and workers' self-management in Turkey were seen in the 1960s and 1970s, and discussions on this issue intensified in the same years. Workers' control and workers’ self-management in Turkey can be followed through two different models: First, workers' control and self-management experiences through factory occupation, and second, new generation cooperatives and communes that can be evaluated within the scope of social and solidarity economy. In this study, first the concept of workers’ control and self-management will be explained, and then the experiences and discussions on workers’ control and self-management in Turkey will be examined.

Author Biography

Deniz Gürler

Postdoctoral researcher (Argentina). He completed his doctorate in Social Policy/Kocaeli University (Kocaeli/Turkey) with his thesis titled "Factory Occupation Movements and Occupied Factories Movement in the Context of the Struggle for Workers' Control from the 20th to the 21st Century". The study was awarded the Prof. Dr. Cahit Talas Social Policy Award (2021) and published as a book ("İşçi Denetimi Mücadelesi, İşgal, Direniş, Üretim!", Publisher: İletişim/2023). He translated the work titled "Putin's Labor Dilemma, Russian Politics Between Stability and Stagnation" (Stephen Crowley) into Turkish (Publisher: Notabene/2023). He is among the translators of the work titled "Ours To Master and To Own" (Immanuel Ness&Dario Azzellini) (Publisher: Notabene/2021). He is the co-compiler/co-editor of the compilation "Karşı-İşgal: İşgal Hareketleri ve Özyönetimler Üzerine Bir Derleme" ("Counter-Occupation: A Compilation on Occupation Movements and Self-Managements", Publisher: Siyah-Beyaz). He has articles on empresas recuperadas and social&solidarity economy. He works on labor movements, social&solidarity economy, empresas recuperadas.