{"product_id":"industrial-islamism-utku-baris-balaban-9780520422537","title":"Industrial Islamism: How Authoritarian Movements Mobilize Workers","description":"\u003cp\u003e A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndustrial Islamism\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003efaubourgeoisie\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Utku Baris Balaban\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520422538\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520422537\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/22\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Utku Baris Balaban","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46372720836863,"sku":"9780520422537","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b780faa2-9c10-41a1-8942-c35befa9638a.jpg?v=1732726760","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/industrial-islamism-utku-baris-balaban-9780520422537","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}