Overview

This course covers the social welfare and labor relations dimensions of the ongoing transformation in Turkey. Neoliberal restructuring in Turkey since the 1980s has led to a fundamental transformation of social policies and labor relations. In addition to the state’s changing form of presence in the worlds of labor and welfare, Turkey’s deepening integration to global capitalism have also created fundamental shifts in the labor force structure in terms of its spatial, sectoral, occupational and employment-status distribution. Today, an increasing number of people who depend on paid-employment for their livelihood are forced to experience this transformation in an increasingly flexible, unregulated, unorganized, and insecure labor market settings