Publications

I write on the global history of labour and political economy, women and gender history, social movements, and cultural history.

Below you will find some of my recent publications.

Research Spotlight

  • MONOGRAPH

    In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey (Brill 2023)

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    Productive Hierarchies in Global Perspectives: Gendered Skill, Labor Control and Workplace Politics

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    Back to the Factory: The Continuing Salience of Industrial Workplace History

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    Between State Feminism and Work Intensification: Gendered Labour Control Regimes in Turkish Textile and Tobacco Industries

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    Experts, Exiles, and Textiles: German “Rationalisierung” on the 1930s Turkish Shop Floor

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    Metaphorical Machines or Mindless Consumers: Young Working-Class Femininity in Early Postwar Turkey

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    Petitioning as Industrial Bargaining in a Turkish State Factory: The Changing Nature of Petitioning in Early Republican Turkey

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    Five episodes from a two-decade-long academic walk with E. P. Thompson

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    Duas décadas com E. P. Thompson em cinco episódios

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Podcast

The podcast is produced by members of the working group Workplaces: Pasts and Presents. It provides interdisciplinary perspectives on the workplace by bringing together scholars with research projects on labour, work, and space. The project draws on a range of disciplinary methodologies and on the tools of digital humanities and social sciences to archive, curate, and disseminate the results to audiences of students, scholars, activists, and the general public.

Listen to Görkem Akgöz talking about her book, In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey, in the New Books Network podcast episode in Turkish Studies, of May 12, 2024, hosted by Caleb Zakarin.

Online Exhibit

GENDER AND LABOUR AT THE MARGINS OF MODERNITY: FEMALE FACTORY WORK IN TURKEY, 1930S-1950S

Credits
Görkem Akgöz


Through interweaving the parallel processes of industrialisation and nation-building, this exhibit explores the two most prominent aspects of visible modernity in interwar Turkey: the image of the large factory and the status of women.