Abstract:
The present study examines the industrialization process of Gebze district particularly during the raging market economy after 1980. During this inquiry, the question in mind was discovering the affects of the transition from Fordism to a flexible accumulation regime on industry -in particular on industrial localization- and on power relations on space in a densely industrialized province. This thesis proposes an analysis of the transition process by the principles of both production regimes. In this quest, a theoretical tool of flexible accumulation regime, industrial district, is applied in a generalized sense to understand the clustering of industrial firms in a newly industrializing country at the age of globalization.
