Signs of change in Turkey's working class: workers' age‐related perceptions in the modern manufacturing sector*

Nichols, Theo; Sugur, Nadir; Taşıran, Ali Cevat

doi:10.1111/j.1468-4446.2003.00527.x

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“…While job satisfaction studies are pervasive in western societies, there are few studies done on this matter on Turkish organizations and employers. It is has been established that pay, age, gender, absenteeism (Yucelt, 1982;Bilgic, 1998;Nichols et al, 2003), effort, role conflict and commitment (Menguc, 1996;Yavas and Bodur, 1999) are significantly related to job satisfaction for Turkish employees. However, the effects of cultural variables on job satisfaction of Turkish workers are not discussed in any studies.…”

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The Cultural Orientations of Entrepreneurs and Employees’ Job Satisfaction: The Turkish Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) Case

Yetim

2006

Soc Indic Res

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The Cultural Orientations of Entrepreneurs and Employees’ Job Satisfaction: The Turkish Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) Case

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2006

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Turkish trade unionists and Turkey’s membership of the European Union

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Taşıran

2014

International Review of Applied Economics

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In all the discussion of Turkey's accession to the EU little attention is paid to the views of workers. This paper provides a statistical analysis of the views of over 6,000 Turkish trade union members on Turkey's EU membership. Parameters are estimated using multilevel probit models where the nested structures of workers into trade unions and federations are taken into account since they shared some join characteristics because of belonging to these organisations. The analysis confirms the extensive disillusion with the EU found elsewhere in Turkish society but more interestingly it disconfirms an idea that those inside the EU may too easily assume to be the case: that it is those with what might be considered modernist characteristics among the Turkish population who are most likely to be in favour of EU entry. The idea seems to chime well with assumptions that the EU is a progressive, modern force. But whatever the validity of such a view, EU entry is not in fact found to be the favoured goal of the young and the best educated: it is older workers who are the most likely to support entry and those who are educated to the highest level the most likely to oppose it. Amongst the main three trade union federations there is also a greater propensity of members of trade unions affiliated to Hak-İş (the Islamic federation) to support entry than those in Türk-İş (centre right) or DİSK (historically the most militant).

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Kayıp sınıfın peşinde: Anadolu’da sınıf oluşumu ve modernleşme

Nurol¹

2015

Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi

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saha araştırmasına dayanan bu çalışma, Orta Anadolu'daki bir sanayi kasabasında işçi sınıfının yükseliş ve çöküş süreçlerini inceliyor. Çalışma özel olarak Kamu İktisadi Teşebbüsleri'nin (KİTler) sınıf oluşumundaki rolüne odaklanıyor ve bu süreci devlet için çalışmış olan işçilerin hayat öykülerinde görüldüğü şekliyle analiz ediyor. Çalışma Türkiye'nin en büyük tekstil fabrikalarından birinin bulunduğu Ereğli'de yürütüldü. Çalışmanın sonucunda üç temel bulguya ulaşıldı. İlk olarak, fabrikanın kuruluş yıllarında işçiler sosyal statü ve saygınlıklarını işyerleriyle ilişkilendirmektedir ki bu durum geleneksel tarım işçiliğinden modern sanayi işçiliğine geçiş anlamı taşımaktadır. İkinci olarak, bir sonraki işçi kuşağı söz konusu örgütsel modele güvensizlik duymaya başlamış ve yeni arayışlar peşine düşmüştür. Bu güvencesizliğin gerekçeleri, yöneticilerin keyfi davranışları, sendikanın yozlaşması, ağır iş yükü ve sürekli denetim altında çalışmaktır. Üçüncü olarak, işletmenin özelleştirilmesi en son kuşağı köklerinden uzaklaştırmıştır. Özelleştirme bu kuşak için yalnızca mali değil, sosyal ve kültürel anlamda da çözülme anlamına gelmektedir.Anahtar Sözcükler: işçi sınıfı, sınıf oluşumu, modernleşme, özelleştirme, sanayi kasabaları In Search of a Lost Class: Class Formation and Modernization in Anatolia AbstractBased on a field research, this study examines the rise and decline of the working class in an industrial town in Central Anatolia. It focuses in particular on the role of State Economic Enterprises (SEEs) in class formation and attempts to analyze the process as they appeared in the life histories of workers who had been employed by the government. The study has been conducted in Eregli where one of the biggest cotton factories of Turkey was located. The study has three main findings. First, in the initial years, the workers related their social status and respectability with the workplace, which meant a transition from traditional agricultural workmanship to modern industrial workmanship. Second, for the next generation, workers have great doubts about this organizational pattern, and looked for new points of departures for several reasons: arbitrary behaviors of the managers; corruption of the labor union; heavy workload and continuous labor control. Third, the privatization of the enterprise has uprooted the last generation. It has brought about disintegration that was not merely financial but also social, and even cultural.

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Signs of change in Turkey's working class: workers' age‐related perceptions in the modern manufacturing sector*

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

The Cultural Orientations of Entrepreneurs and Employees’ Job Satisfaction: The Turkish Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) Case

The Cultural Orientations of Entrepreneurs and Employees’ Job Satisfaction: The Turkish Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) Case

Turkish trade unionists and Turkey’s membership of the European Union

Kayıp sınıfın peşinde: Anadolu’da sınıf oluşumu ve modernleşme

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