title: Textures of Struggle
abstract: Worker Politicisation from the Shop Floor to the Trade Union"Good riddance, we're saved!" exclaimed the deputy chairman of the Bakırköy Textile Workers Trade Union, teary-eyed, at the general assembly on 25 September 1948.The meeting took place days after an anonymous newspaper article had accused the union management of betraying workers' interests in submitting to the control of the ruling party.The author, Enver Tenşi, whose identity was later revealed at the meeting, was a foreman in the wea