The Impact of Motherland Party’s Neoliberal Policies on Labour Markets within the Framework of 3Ds in New Work Life
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The objective of the study is to focus on the impacts of Motherland
Party’s neoliberal policies on labour markets. The 1980s were the years in
which economic policies underwent changes and transformations owing to the
powerful effect of globalization and neoliberalism. On the one hand it has been
debated that the influences of the process through which everybody learns
everything in a short period of time, on the other hand it has been observed
that economy-politics were shaped on the basis of “neoliberalism” because of
oil crisis in 1973. On account of the neoliberal policies, the state minimalizes
and marginalizes itself, so do the social policies and social problems; in
addition, private sector or in other words capital owners comes to the power
both on economic and labour markets. To put in another way, the minimal and the
marginal impulse of the state on the social, economic, and politic structure
through the motto “Laissez faire, laissez passer.”, brings about marginalization, weakness, as
well as vulnerability on the social policy and labour markets as particular
domain. The reason is that those who develop, manage or control social policy
through governments is the state itself; nothing else. Loosing initiatives of
the state concerning the solution of the social problems will stem in decrease
of the efficiency of social policy; nevertheless it will enhance imposition of
the capital. In short, if the state is powerful and dominant in the system,
social policy will be too. The enforcement of “competition” brought about
globalization defined as the monopoly of goods, services, and capital is the
fundamental factor that affects the labour markets deeply. In the industrial
relations systematicity, moving from the sole priority of employers shaped
depending upon profit maximization and cost minimization so as to compete with
the others and according to them, the unique factor that minimizes profit and
maximizes cost is the labour itself. Therefore, the wage income of the labour
is to be declined or lock out is to be done so that fewer labour can be
employed. Labour markets, as a dynamic domain, are shaped by the rules of
supply and demand. The political initiatives leave a great impact on the
running of labour market due to the fact that those that control the policy
control the labour markets as well. Therefore, the policies developed by Motherland
Party extremely affected the structure of labour markets. The reason is that
1980s were the years when radical transformations took place on the basis of
labour market implementations. The first development was related to the
neoliberal policies adapted by Turkish government in the aftermath of January
24th Decisions through which Turkish economy took an initiative for opening
itself so as to integrate with the world economy. Via neoliberal policies,
state was marginalized, and state was regarded as a sort of ‘barrier’ that
decelerated investment and growth; but on the other hand, private initiatives
were maximized day by day. Development and growth depended upon capital
accumulation by means of private entrepreneurships, and the state was removed
from economic and social policies. Additionally, globalization that rendered
the world as a ‘unique’ and ‘sole’ mechanism neglecting differentiations
fostered this process as well. As a result of the development in information
and communication technologies in parallel with globalization process, the
world converted into a small piece in which everyone was informed with
everything in a short period of time. Globalization brought about international
competition that caused employee to be taken into account as the biggest cost
factor. These kinds of new improvements shifted the structure of labour markets
and instead of employee centered industrial relations, employer oriented one
appeared again that trivialized employee and its wage. More than that, new
working types called as deregulation in the literature gave birth that
minimalized the significance of employees and turned them into a ‘tool’ to be
sold and bought or rented. As a whole, the study consists of two chapters. In
the first part of the study, moving from the term of policy, Motherland Party’s
neoliberal initiatives along with January 24th Decisions and Military Coup has
been reflected. As for the second part, the policies and their reflections on
labour markets have been assessed.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Kaynakça
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
Türkçe
Konular
Ekonomi
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Yayımlanma Tarihi
7 Temmuz 2017
Gönderilme Tarihi
7 Temmuz 2017
Kabul Tarihi
5 Haziran 2017
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2017 Cilt: 7 Sayı: 2