Labour in Turkey: Economic, Political and Social Perspectives

Abstract

Turkey's neoliberal transformation in the early 1980s drastically changed the structure of the work life and the issues of the labour differentiated since then. The book uses a multi-dimensional approach by considering the economic, poli-tical and social aspects of labour in Turkey. It addresses diversified problems including jobless growth, regional segregation, immigrant workers, rural labour relations, gender discrimination and precarity. It also analyses the transforma-tion from past to present and questions its future potentials by discussing the effects of new technologies on working regimes. Contributions by researchers from various disciplines enabled a comprehensive examination and paved the way for a critical thinking on the future challenges of labour in Turkey. © Peter Lang GmbH Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Berlin 2020. All rights reserved.