@article{2016:yaman:our_own,
title = {‘Our own China’: a review of Turkey’s industrial and employment strategy documents},
year = {2016},
note = {Turkey’s export-oriented economy was primarily dependent on low
wages and imported capital goods until recently. In the last few
years, the result of the competitive pressure of giant manufacturing
countries like China and India was that Turkey’s export industries
went through a two-dimensional structural transformation: a shift to
high-tech production combined with regional restructuring of industry.
These processes promise an increase in the competitive power of
Turkey’s export industries as well as a solution to the trade
deficit problem. Recent industrial and employment strategy documents
express the desire to increase labour productivity with the explicit
target of ‘transforming Turkey into Europe’s China’. However,
the low wage strategy has not been abandoned altogether. In fact, the
aim is also to establish Turkey’s own China in the south-east
region, in which Kurdish people live, by mobilising a cheap female
labour force for textile and garment manufacturing. This article
discusses these two dimensions of industrial transformation and their
impact on labour.},
journal = {SEER Journal for Labour and Social Affairs in Eastern Europe},
pages = {67--88},
author = {Yaman, Melda},
volume = {19},
number = {1}
}