ABSTRACT
The organisation and status of labour in Turkey has in the past been reflected in the political and economic state of the country. During the period of decline in the authority of the State and of general weakness round the Sultan’s Court, modern industry developed slowly or indeed stagnated. The Kemalist Government of the National Revolution set itself the task of industrialising Turkey, and consequently became concerned in having a contented working class which would run these industries, mainly Turkish and very many of them publicly owned. The Turkish trade-union leaders seem to see nothing very wrong in taking their lead from the Government in matters of this kind, and indeed to wait for Government initiative in such matters. In Turkey one observes the creation of a public opinion which is definitely friendly towards all forms of productive labour and anxious that it should have a square deal.
