Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: İstanbul Şehir Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, History, Türkiye
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2014
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Öğrenci: PINAR SÜT
Danışman: Abdulhamit Kirmizi
Özet:
This thesis focuses on the working conditions of the Anatolian Railway Company employees within the framework of political conjuncture and from a labor perspective in the period between 1888 and 1914, in the Ottoman Empire. It relies on primary and secondary sources to examine the working conditions, the establishment of the labor organization and the challenges it faced, protests and strikes, and the issue of reconciliation between the state and workers. The central goal of the thesis is the discussion the working conditions of the railway workers including such exceptional situations as contagious diseases and incidences regarding the abduction of workers, and the negative effect of these conditions on work life. The characteristics and the importance of the workplace, the political conjuncture, and the labor policy of the government should be considered as interactive forces when examining working life. Another issue addressed in this thesis is the main motive of the government in preparing the Strike Law of 1909, which was an antistrike legislation was the strike of the Anatolian railway employees in 1908. The organizational power of the railway employees and its effects on other workers in other sectors need to be considered regarding the importance the government distributed to the railway employees' strike. One of the main assertions of this thesis is the need to write Ottoman history from a bottom up perspective and from the viewpoint of workers. Thus this study sheds light on not only the international and domestic political situation and conjuncture, but also the lives of the railway workers in order to make up for the long negligence of researchers and historians in this regard so far. This study aims of making a contribution to the efforts to fill the gap that currently exists regarding the history of the Ottoman railways and Ottoman labor history. Keywords: Ottoman Labor History, Anatolian Railway Employees, Working Life in the Late Ottoman Period.