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Industrial Islamism: How Authoritarian Movements Mobilize Workers

Industrial Islamism: How Authoritarian Movements Mobilize Workers

Hardcover

IslamGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesTurkey & Ottoman Empire History

ISBN10: 0520422538
ISBN13: 9780520422537
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Jul 22 2025
Pages: 334
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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Industrial Islamism analyzes the relationship, since the end of the Cold War, between the rise of political Islamism in Muslim-majority countries and the rise of a new global middle class of industrial entrepreneurs. Challenging common assumptions, Utku Balaban questions the idea that political Islamism represents the antithesis of Western modernity and industrialization. On the contrary: the more enthusiastically a Muslim-majority country industrializes, the more Islamized its politics becomes.

The book focuses on Turkey, historically the most industrialized Muslim-majority country in the world, with the most successful Islamist movement and a relatively competitive electoral system. It provides a fine-grained historical and ethnographic analysis at the local level of urban-industrial control over workers in sweatshops and working-class neighborhoods by this new global middle class, whom Balaban calls the faubourgeoisie. As the central actor behind Turkey's post-Cold War industrialization, the faubourgeoisie allies with the Islamist movement to control its workers and significantly influence national politics.

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