Local class relations within the dialectics of value and socialisation: the case of Kayseri

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Gündoğdu, İbrahim

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This dissertation analyses the recent industrialisation process in Kayseri from a particular theoretical perspective that focusses on the relations between capital and labour, labour regime in particular. However, it is neither a theoretical study on industrial accumulation nor an empirical investigation for a local industrial growth; but rather a theoretically-informed analysis of the development of class contradictions between capital and labour within the city of Kayseri where a remarkable level of (private) industrial investments has taken place in some locally specific ways over the last two decades. In line with a particular conceptualisation based on historical-geographical materialist understanding of capital accumulation process, this study reveals the historical, social, economic, cultural, institutional and legal aspects of such development in the local industry of Kayseri at different spatial scales ranging from the international and national to the local and workplace levels.

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Labor economics, Labor policy, Manpower policy, Industrial relations

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12618635/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/24540

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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İ. Gündoğdu, “Local class relations within the dialectics of value and socialisation: the case of Kayseri,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2015.