THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DAILY REPRODUCTION OF LABOR POWER AND HOUSING: CASE OF ŞAŞMAZ INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT/ANKARA

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2024-9-06

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Sarıca Kılıçarslan, Hatice

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The reproduction of labor is a very important concept for the welfare and continuity of labor and should be considered accordingly. Daily reproduction practices, like many other decisions in life, are intertwined and interconnected with housing choice and housing status. Despite this importance, there is very limited information about the relationship between them. This thesis examines daily reproduction within the framework of housing and its environment; furthermore, aims to find possible relationships between them. The data of the thesis were obtained as a result of semi-structured interviews conducted with 25 participants working in the Şaşmaz Industrial District in Ankara. Obtained data were digitized with Microsoft Excel; code and thematic studies were conducted on Maxqdata tool. As a result of the thematic analysis of the interview data, the most relevant housing feature to the daily reproduction practices of labor power was determined as the spatial relationship between the housing and the workplace. The spatial relations between housing and workplace and the time spent commuting extend the already long working hours of workers even further, virtually stealing the time they should spend on reproduction. The responses given by participants also drew attention to the fact that intensive work tempo and excessive working hours are the factors that most affect the reproduction of labor power in general.

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Reproduction of Labor, Housing, Housing environment, Industrial workers

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/111494

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis