Dr. Gorkem Akgoz

Post-doc fellow

IGK Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History (re:work)

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Unter den Linden 6

DE

10099 Berlin

akgozgorkem@yahoo.com

https://hu-berlin.academia.edu/GorkemAkgoz

Research and projects

Current position(s)

Post-doc fellow at IGK Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History (re:work)

Current project(s)

Developing Factory History as a Research Program:
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Industrial Capitalism’s Emblematic Workplace

Gender and Labour at the Margins of Modernity:
Representations of Female Factory Labour in Turkey, 1947-1960

Former position(s)

Hacettepe University, Ankara, Lecturer

Publications

Monographs (and dissertation)

Many Voices of a Turkish State University: Working at Bakırköy Cloth Factory, 1932-1950. Ph.D. Thesis.

Articles

“Petitioning as Industrial Bargaining in a Turkish State Factory: The Changing Nature of Petitioning in Early Republican Turkey,” in On the Road to Global Labour History, ed. by Karl Heinz Roth. Brill, Leiden: 2017.

“İşçi Sınıfı Tarihyazımında İşyeri ve Çalışma Deneyiminin Yeri: Erken Cumhuriyet Dönemi Fabrikalarının Kapısından Girmek” (The Role of Workplace Experience in Working-Class Historiography: Entering the Factories of the Early Republican Period), in Türkiye İşçi Sınıfı Tarihi 1839-2014: Yeni Yaklaşimlar, Yeni Alanlar,Yeni Sorunlar (Working Class History in Turkey 1839-2014: New Approaches, New Areas, New Questions) ed. by Y. Doğan Çetinkaya and Mehmet Alkan, Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, İstanbul: 2015.

“Mutsuz Evlilikten Tehlikeli Flörte: Feminizm, Neoliberalizm ve Toplumsal Hareketler” (Trans. “From Unhappy Marriage to Dangerous Liaison: Feminism, Neoliberalism and Social Movements”) (2016) Fe Dergi 8, no. 2, 86-100.

“Kapitalizmin Krizine Toplumsal Cinsiyet Perspektifinden Bakmak: Analitik bir Çerçeve Önerisi” (Trans. “Looking at the Crisis of Capitalism from Gender Perspective: A Suggestion for an Analytical Framework”) (co-authored with Ecehan Balta) Hacettepe Üniversitesi Sosyolojik Araştırmalar E-Dergisi (2015) (http://www.sdergi.hacettepe.edu.tr/makaleler/Kapitalizmin_Krizine_Toplumsal_Cinsiyet_Perspektifinden_Bakmak.pdf)

"İşçiler Greve Karşı: 1947 Sendikacılığının İlk Yıllarında Grev Tartışmaları" (Trans. “Workers against Strike: Debates on the Right to Strike in the Early Years of the 1947 Trade Unionism”) Mülkiye Dergisi (2014) 38 (4): 121-158.

“Sınıfın Söylemsel Kuruluşu: 1947 Sendikacılığının İlk Yıllarında Milliyetçi ve Anti-Komünist Söylemler” (Trans. “The Discursive Construction of Class: Nationalist and Anti-Communist Discourses in the First Years of 1947 Trade Union Movement”), Praksis (2014) 35-36: 61-82.

List of publications (Url)

https://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj-1d7Eg83XAhVILhoKHZYoDhkQFghEMAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpure.uva.nl%2Fws%2Ffiles%2F1689533%2F102593_04.pdf&usg=AOvVaw0eAUQ7iqy5C3lFIYGPzjFM

Areas of research

labor history, woman and gender history, feminist economics, social movements

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