Year: 2012
Type: book
Abstract: Agriculture, peasantry and poverty in Turkey in the neo-liberal age Foreword mobile phone tariffs).Moreover, Turkey did not start from a position of inefficient heavy industry based on highly unionised, relatively expensive labour, which has characterized the restructuring that has been taking place in some Western (and CIS) countries.This is not to say that the introduction of neo-liberalism in developing countries does not include social programmes being transferred away from state provision, capital gains taxes going unreduced and workers' rights being eroded.On the contrary, all of these have occurred in Turkey, much of which Murat refers to.Nevertheless, it is developing countries that are most vulnerable to the interests of international capital, even as they enter a new age of comparative prosperity.And starting from the position of a prominence of the agricultural sector, it is the rural economies that are most affected by the transformation effected by capital, and it is the fabric of village life that is most torn and ripped apart and partially patched back together in new ways by the ending of supports and opening of markets; it is urban migration and the metamorphosis or death of the village that most defines the socio-economic restructuring that occurs as a result, and it is the consequent transformation of poverty and the peasantry that characterises the human dimension of this.These are the changes documented here for Turkey.Foreword
Author: Murat Öztürk
Language: English
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1674935607