Join the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program for “White-Collar Blues: The Making of the Transnational Turkish Middle Class" with Mustafa Yavaş, Johns Hopkins University, on Wednesday, April 29th at 12:30pm via Zoom. This event is part of the speaker series “Histories and Trajectories of Capital In Turkey.”
Mustafa Yavaş is a sociologist studying work & occupations, migration, social networks, and social theory. His scholarship focuses on economic and political sociology from a global perspective, motivated by questions concerning the division of labor and well-being, the dynamics of boundaries and identities, and the micro-macro problem.
Yavaş’s current research centers on neoliberal globalization, professional work, and job quality. His book, White-Collar Blues: The Making of the Transnational Turkish Middle Class (Columbia University Press, 2025), explores the formation of a new Turkish upper-middle class and explains how coveted positions at transnational corporations can leave their professional-managerial occupants with a discouraging quality of working life.
Yavaş is a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Economy & Society at Johns Hopkins University, where he is teaching in the Moral & Political Economy major and working on high-skill migration in the Global South and career funneling in elite US colleges.
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