Book contents
- Ottoman Reform at Work
- Ottoman Reform at Work
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Text
- Maps
- Introduction
- Part I A New Order
- Part II Modernizing Coercion
- 3 Militarizing Labor
- 4 Mobilizing Children
- 5 The Factory Regime
- Part III The Class on the Move
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Book part
- Index
5 - The Factory Regime
from Part II - Modernizing Coercion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 December 2025
Book contents
- Ottoman Reform at Work
- Ottoman Reform at Work
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Text
- Maps
- Introduction
- Part I A New Order
- Part II Modernizing Coercion
- 3 Militarizing Labor
- 4 Mobilizing Children
- 5 The Factory Regime
- Part III The Class on the Move
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Book part
- Index
Summary
Chapter 5 focuses on the labor process to analyze what industrial modernization meant for the workers and how coercive practices and welfare measures were employed to curb workers’ mobility. It depicts the industrial transformation and mechanization in the Imperial Arsenal under the supervision of American, and then British engineers. It examines the labor-management policies and practices that developed in response to the formation of a heterogeneous labor force, and examines the regulations and instructions on the production process issued by the naval bureaucracy in the early 1870s. In parallel with the increasing division of labor and the desire of the state elites to control the labor process, the Arsenal administration attempted to consolidate capitalist relations through top-down supervision of the labor process, time discipline, and the spatial-administrative reorganization of the labor force. In addition, intending to halt the problem of turnovers and increase workers’ loyalty to their workplace, the administration implemented policies aimed at bonding civilian workers to the arsenal, including the social security benefits as institutionalized in the mid-1870s.
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- Ottoman Reform at WorkClass, Migration, and Coercion in the Imperial Arsenal, pp. 162 - 200Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2026
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