From social policy to labour economics and industrial relations in Turkey: a critical history of an academic discipline

Cam E.

LABOR HISTORY, cilt.62, sa.2, ss.186-204, 2021 (AHCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 62 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2021
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/0023656x.2021.1897092
  • Dergi Adı: LABOR HISTORY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, IBZ Online, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Periodicals Index Online, ABI/INFORM, American History and Life, ATLA Religion Database, Business Source Elite, Business Source Premier, EconLit, Gender Studies Database, Historical Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, Political Science Complete, Social services abstracts, Sociological abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, DIALNET
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.186-204
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Labour economics and industrial relations, social policy, institutional transformation, higher education in Turkey
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Departments of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations in Turkey have their roots in social policy education in the Turkish university system dating back to a pre-republican (1923) period. The social policy discipline, which was influenced by the German and in part by the French approaches during its establishment, has over time been exposed to intense Americanization efforts, which led to the creation of departments of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations. The paper analyses this transformation in two dimensions. The first dimension is related to the historical development of the institutionalization process. The second is that under whose influence was this institutionalization process shaped? It argues that Labour Economics and Industrial Relations as an academic discipline has come to be represented by two different traditions involving four generations of academics.