Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
İstanbul Gelişim Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, cilt.5, sa.1, ss.1-18, 2018 (TRDizin)
One of the major problems of thestatist industrialization policies in 1930s and 1940s in Turkey was both thequantitative and qualitative deficiencies in terms of industrial labor force.State-run enterprises of Sümerbank and Etibank, which were established in thatperiod, did not only lead the drive for industrialization, but also forhandling the labor force problems including high rates of worker rotation, lackof skilled workers, or the issue of peasant-workers, and initiated severalprograms and facilities which had crucial consequences as far as the formationof an industrial working class and the reproduction of industrial labor forcewere concerned. The article focuses on three of them -housing, nutrition andhealth programs- by examining the evaluations of the bureaucrats and factorymanagements as well as the experiences and reactions of the Etibank andSümerbank workers.