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ADM4152 DEVELOPMENT OF THE WORKING CLASS IN TURKEY

Course Objectives

At the end of this course, the student will learn:

• The major theoretical perspectives on social classes and their relevance to the study of politics

• The major modes of working class organizations, actions, and ideologies

• The emergence and development of the working class in historical perspective

• The general and distinctive conditions of the development of the working class in Ottoman and Republican Turkey

• The major trends in working class organizations, actions, legislations, and ideologies in Turkey

• The impacts of the scientific-technological revolution, the third crisis of capitalism, and globalization on the working class movement in the world and in Turkey

• The effects of the capitalist restoration of the etatist-bureaucratic socialism on the working class movement

Course Content

The rationale for re-proposing of this course is may social scientifically grounded opinion of felt need for integration of a course –indeed a series of courses- focused on the development of the working class in Turkey to the undergraduate curriculum of our department in order to stimulate the development of an awareness of the necessity of grounding the academic formation of political science students on the reality and knowledge of social classes as the broadest and deepest socio-historical determining bases of politics in class societies. 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: (1) the impacts of the scientific-technological revolution, (2) the third crisis of capitalism, and its neo-liberal 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 particular.
In the exposition of the treatment of the subject, I intent to apply an integrated use of historical and analytical methods as an appropriate methodological perspective.
The preparation of a term-paper and active participation in group discussion on the term-paper presentation will be principal requirements in the learning process of the course.

Course Learning Outcomes

Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

• Understand the major theoretical perspectives on social classes and their relevance to the study of politics

• Analyze the major modes of working class organizations, actions, and ideologies

• Examine the emergence and development of the working class in historical perspective

• Evaluate the general and distinctive conditions of the development of the working class in Ottoman and Republican Turkey

• Identify and assess the major trends in working class organizations, actions, legislations, and ideologies in Turkey

• Analyze the impacts of the scientific-technological revolution, the third crisis of capitalism, and globalization on the working class movement in the world and in Turkey

• Understand the effects of the capitalist restoration of the etatist-bureaucratic socialism on the working class movement

Program Outcomes Matrix

0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution