Evaluating Social Movement Impacts

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Some social movements bring in quick, radical political and social changes while others get incorporated into existing systems or subjected to harsh repression. This book examines why social movements elicit different policy responses and their varying impact on the societies in which they occur. It also seeks to understand why seemingly inconsequential movements can nonetheless have enduring effects. These issues are explored through the comparative historical analysis of four labor movements, in the UK and the U.S. in the late 1800s -early 1900s, in Japan from 1945 to 1960, and in Turkey during the mid to late 1900s, which is the book's primary case study. Turkey's labor movement, although often seen as a failure, greatly influenced state-society relations and contemporary Turkish politics. This significant study offers a new framework of analysis by focusing on social movement impacts rather than successes or failures. This leads to having to reconsider the enduring effects of repressed or failed movements. By doing so, it will help researchers study the likely impact of social movements in today's politics. Title Page Copyright page Contents List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Preface Chapter 1 Introduction: The Impact of Alternative Collective Subjectivities Toward a cultural analysis of movement impacts Alternative collective subjectivities and the cultural analysis of movement impacts Measuring collective subjectivity and impact Conclusion Notes Chapter 2 Collective Subjectivity and Divergences in the Shaping of State–Labor Relations in Great Britain and the United States From the factory to the house of commons – The labor movement in Great Britain Exceptionalism and collective subjectivity in the American labor movement Conclusion Notes Chapter 3 Dreams of Solidarity: Populism and State–Building without Class Antagonism Populism in the era of single-party rule (1923–46) Populism and the transition to multiparty politics (1946–60) Türk-İş and the growth of working class organizational strength Conclusion Notes Chapter 4 Recognition and Redistribution: The Politics and Impact of Labor Insurgency in Turkey, 1960–80 Political process and the emergence of labor insurgency The rise of an alternative collective subjectivity (Re)Evaluating the impact of the turkish labor movement Notes Chapter 5 Democracy and Economic Justice: Labor Activism and Contemporary Turkish Politics1 The resurgence of political unionism The “Kurdish question” reconsidered From socialism to Islamic politics Conclusion: Continuities in contemporary Turkish politics Notes Chapter 6 Japan, Turkey, and the Comparative Analysis of Social Movement Impacts “Give us rice,” “give us peace”: The impact of labor radicalism in Japan Labor activism and the shaping of state–society relations in Japan and Turkey Alternative collective subjectivities and the study of social movements Normative implications: Alternative collective subjectivities and democracy Notes Bibliography Index