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  • 9 - Violence, Protests and Walkouts

  • from Part II - Everyday Politics of Urban Labor
  • Murat Metinsoy, Istanbul Üniversitesi
  • Book:
    The Power of the People
    Published online:
    24 December 2021
    Print publication:
    11 November 2021, pp 178-190

  • Summary

    This chapter scrutinizes the last resorts of the workers in the face of extreme exploitation and oppression. Although the organized labor movement declined with the state’s increasing power from the second half of the 1920s, this did not mean that the working-class protests, violence and even informal and spontaneous strikes in the form of walkouts ended. On the contrary, the working people resorted to more informal and individual daily strategies such as intimidation tactics, threats, fights and attacks when laborers felt exploited. It also examines collective protests and walkouts beyond the few well-known strikes of the time. This chapter shows that despite the lack of trade unions and organized movements, such methods were not inconclusive in negotiating working conditions and wages.