@article{article_332258, title={The (Re)production of the Industrial Labor Force in Early Republican Turkey: The Case of Sümerbank and Etibank}, journal={İstanbul Gelişim Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi}, volume={5}, pages={1–18}, year={2018}, DOI={10.17336/igusbd.332258}, author={Dingiloğlu, Selin}, keywords={Sümerbank,Etibank,Sanayileşme,Sınai İşçi Sınıfı,Emek Gücünün Yeniden Üretimi}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="margin:6pt 0cm .0001pt;line-height:115%;"> <span lang="en-us" style="line-height:115%;" xml:lang="en-us">One of the major problems of the
statist industrialization policies in 1930s and 1940s in Turkey was both the
quantitative and qualitative deficiencies in terms of industrial labor force.
State-run enterprises of Sümerbank and Etibank, which were established in that
period, did not only lead the drive for industrialization, but also for
handling the labor force problems including high rates of worker rotation, lack
of skilled workers, or the issue of peasant-workers, and initiated several
programs and facilities which had crucial consequences as far as the formation
of an industrial working class and the reproduction of industrial labor force
were concerned. The article focuses on three of them -housing, nutrition and
health programs- by examining the evaluations of the bureaucrats and factory
managements as well as the experiences and reactions of the Etibank and
Sümerbank workers.  </span> </p> <p> </p>}, number={1}, publisher={İstanbul Gelişim Üniversitesi}