Alpkan Birelma’s research while affiliated with Özyeğin University and other places

What is this page?


This page lists works of an author who doesn't have a ResearchGate profile or hasn't added the works to their profile yet. It is automatically generated from public (personal) data to further our legitimate goal of comprehensive and accurate scientific recordkeeping. If you are this author and want this page removed, please let us know.

Publications (14)


Türkiye'de Sosyal Diyalog Algısı
  • Book
  • Full-text available

January 2018

·

115 Reads

Fikret Adaman

·

·

Alpkan Birelma

·

[...]

·

Bu çalışma ile Türkiye’de “Çalışma Hayatında Sosyal Diyaloğun Geliştirilmesi Projesi” kapsamında 2018 yılında gerçekleştirilmiş olan araştırmanın sonuçları sunulmaktadır. Araştırmanın amacı, kamuoyunun, çalışan kesimin ve çalışma hayatındaki sosyal tarafların sosyal diyalog ve sendikalaşma hakkındaki bilgi ve algılarının ölçülmesi, sosyal diyaloğun ve örgütlenmenin nasıl geliştirilebileceğine ilişkin düşüncelerinin ortaya çıkarılması ve bu bilgiler ışığında sosyal diyaloğun geliştirilmesine yönelik politika önerilerinin tasarlanmasıdır. Bu amaç için konuyla ilgili literatürden yola çıkarak ülke genelinde yaklaşık 2.000 kişilik yüz yüze anket icra edilmiş ve sosyal taraflarla derinlemesine görüşmeler gerçekleştirilmiştir.

Download

Figure 3: The demographics of the general public and the working population samples II
Figure 16: How successful are the unions?
Figure 17: The perception of whether the unions are seen as powerful in working life
Figure 30: For how long have you been working?
Figure 31: Average weekly working hours

+2

Perception on Social Dialogue in Turkey: The Viewpoints of General Public, Employees and Relevant Actors 2018 2 Perception on Social Dialogue in Turkey: The Viewpoints of General Public, Employees and Relevant Actors Perception on Social Dialogue in Turkey: The Viewpoints of General Public, Employees and Relevant Actors II III Improving Social Dialogue in Working Life

January 2018

·

173 Reads

Perception on Social Dialogue in Turkey: The Viewpoints of General Public, Employees and Relevant Actors




Citations (4)


... Turkey, as an increasingly authoritarian state, has generally shown little tolerance for protests, with the number of legal strikes and demonstrations significantly decreasing over the years. The number of legal strikes in Turkey has plummeted since the mid-1990s (Birelma, Işıklı, and Sert 2024). This decline was further exacerbated by the AKP government, which banned nearly all legal strikes during the 2010s. ...

Reference:

Politics, Identity and Civic Engagement: Comparing the Protest Participation of Ukrainian Migrants in the Home and Host Countries
The stubborn persistence of working-class protest in Turkey in an age of authoritarian neoliberalism
  • Citing Article
  • November 2023

... Boratav, 1990;Boratav & Yeldan, 2006;Şenses, 2016). Notably since the 1980s, the neoliberal politicaleconomic restructuring of Turkey has fostered a socio-cultural framework with an overemphasis on entrepreneurialism and material success (Turem, 2016;Caliskan & Lounsbury, 2022;Birelma, 2019;Tuğal, 2012). Following the premises of IAT, we focus on the entrenchment of the globalized market economy as the dominant institution through topdown enforced neoliberal policies, and its repercussions on the polity, family and education institutions, the tripartite of which might otherwise appease criminogenic strain (Messner et al., 2008;Messner and Rosenfeld, 2009). ...

Working-class entrepreneurialism: Perceptions, aspirations, and experiences of petty entrepreneurship among male manual workers in Turkey
  • Citing Article
  • November 2019

New perspectives on Turkey

... Not surprisingly, interest-based approaches have dominated the research on trade unions. Less focus has been given to subjectivities, including processes of knowledge formation and learning (Birelma 2018). These subjectivities, or what we term phenomenological processes, affect how actors interpret the world, and-crucially-how they construct knowledge and evaluations about the world's phenomena (Helander 2004(Helander , 2008Jarvis 2007;Schütz 1967). ...

When Local Class Unionism Meets International Solidarity: A Case of Union Revitalisation in Turkey

Global Labour Journal

... The so-called 'slave law' allowed employers to defer payment for overtime for three years (Leotard 2019). In Turkey, subcontracting in public and private jobs imposed limitations on unionization and collective bargaining (Birelma 2017). Subcontracted workers do not have access to the same benefits, protections or collective bargaining agreements that directly employed workers enjoy. ...

Subcontracted Employment and the Labor Movement’s Response in Turkey
  • Citing Chapter
  • January 2017