{"product_id":"industrial-islamism","title":"Industrial Islamism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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\/b\u003e\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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  ","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54260866875736,"sku":"9780520389342","price":38.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780520389342_4e60feda-6049-4599-a12f-6092d806639c.jpg?v=1781325049","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/industrial-islamism","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}