This thesis examines the last 40 years of vocational high schools in Turkey. Perceived as an input for future industrial growth, the area has drawn constant attention of policymakers. Here vocational high schools are ...

During the transition to a multi-party system in Turkey during 1946, the prohibition of founding societies “based on class” was lifted. Thus, the way was open to unionist organizations. At this turning point of the Republic’s ...

The basic concern of this master’s thesis is to develop a historical approach towards the statist industrialization initiated in early 1930s and the formation of Turkish industrial working class with its economic, social, ...

This thesis examines the work accidents in subcontracted companies in the Zonguldak Hard Coal Basin in the period of the flexible working regime post 1980. For this purpose, first, the political economy of work accidents ...