Agrarian Transformation, Labour Supplies, and Proletarianization Process in Turkey: A historical Overview

Keyder, Çağlar; Yenal, Zafer

doi:10.20446/jep-2414-3197-27-1-44

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“…Although internal displacement is not the only dynamic behind the Kurdish rural to urban migration, it has sharply accelerated this process, whose roots can indeed be traced back to agrarian transformations in the Kurdish region that started in the 1950s. 25 The KONDA survey indicates that the percentage of Kurds living in urban and metropolitan areas (70.60 percent) is very close to this percentage for the overall population (76.13 percent). 26 Accompanying this rapid Kurdish urbanization, the Turkish economy has shifted from import-substitutionist developmentalism to export-oriented growth since the 1980s and been shaped by neoliberal policies of privatization, flexibilization, informalization, and deregulation.…”

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Welfare Provision as Political Containment

Yörük

2012

Politics & Society

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Can we argue that pressures generated from grassroots politics are responsible for the rapid expansion and ethnically/racially uneven distribution of social assistance programs in emerging economies? This article analyzes the Turkish case and shows that social assistance programs in Turkey are directed disproportionately to the Kurdish minority and to the Kurdish region of Turkey, especially to the internally displaced Kurds in urban and metropolitan areas. The article analyzes a cross-sectional dataset generated by a 10,386-informant stratified random sampling survey and controls for possibly intervening socioeconomic factors and neighborhood-level fixed-effects. The results show that high ethnic disparity in social assistance is not due to higher poverty among Kurds. Rather, Kurdish ethnic identity is the main determinant of the access to social assistance. This result yields substantive support to argue that the Turkish government uses social assistance to contain the Kurdish unrest in Turkey. The Turkish government seems to give social assistance not simply where the people become poor, but where the poor become politicized. This provides support for Fox Piven and Cloward’s thesis that relief for the poor is driven by social unrest, rather than social need. The article concludes that similar hypotheses may hold true for other emerging economies, where similar types of social assistance programs have recently expanded significantly and have been directed to ethnic/racial groups.

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Welfare Provision as Political Containment

Yörük

2012

Politics & Society

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Prekarität in der chinesischen Hochwachstumsgesellschaft: Eine Fallstudie zur Situation von Wanderarbeitern im Perlflussdelta

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The battlefields of leisure: simple forms of labor control in the Turkish hospitality sector

Erköse

2020

New Perspect. Turk.

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This article is based on an ethnographic study in the Turkish hospitality sector and examines the employment of simple forms of labor control in hospitality service work from the perspective of labor process analysis. It introduces ethnographic data from two holiday villages on the southern coast of Turkey serving international customers. The two holiday villages were workplaces that employed mostly young workers for low-skill, routine tasks that demanded intense physical and emotional labor, but without due remuneration, career chances, and employment security. Data based on participant observation and in-depth interviews point to an increasing managerial reliance on simple forms of labor control. This happens as a result of intensifying competition among hospitality firms in a market with volatile demand and managerial perceptions regarding employees’ lack of customer service skills due to routinization and simplification of tasks after the introduction of the all-inclusive boarding system. Such market-related developments encourage employers to use simple control mechanisms that help in adjusting staffing levels, imposing loyalty, cutting costs, and ensuring efficiency.

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Agrarian Transformation, Labour Supplies, and Proletarianization Process in Turkey: A historical Overview

Cited by 3 publications

References 16 publications

Welfare Provision as Political Containment

Welfare Provision as Political Containment

Prekarität in der chinesischen Hochwachstumsgesellschaft: Eine Fallstudie zur Situation von Wanderarbeitern im Perlflussdelta

The battlefields of leisure: simple forms of labor control in the Turkish hospitality sector

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