Cagatay Edgucan Sahin

Visiting Scholar

Cagatay Edgucan Sahin is an assistant professor in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations Department, Ordu University/Turkey. He teaches Labor Economics, Industrial Democracy, Social Policy and Labor History. He holds his MA (2005) from Department of Labor Economics, Marmara University/Istanbul. His MA thesis was entitled “Consumtion Society and Creation Process of Consumption Society in Turkey”. He also holds his Ph.D in 2009 from the Department of Labor Economics, Marmara University. His thesis published as book named “Human Capital and Human Resources: A Critical Approach” (in Turkish). He focuses on workers’ self-management and factory occupations, trade union strategies and labor history (especially focused on Turkey and late Ottoman period). He is Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey’s fellow at CUNY and his research focuses on to evaluate the relation between formal education and human capital processes of Turkey’s high value added industries, with working class point of view.

Participating Years

2015–2016

Dialectics of Autonomy and Dependence

Self-determination had a heady run in the 20th century, instanced by both revolutionary assertion and homogenizing mimicry. But what is autonomy now? What is dependence? How are these conditions of existence necessarily related – as contradictory rather than contrasting ideologies, representations, relations, outcomes? What forms reveal the dialectic at work? What forms disguise or displace the dynamic?