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- Title
1940'larda Sosyal Politikanın "Fikir Mahfeli": Çalışma Dergisi (1945-1950).
- Authors
TURGAY, Feyza; ÇELİK, Aziz
- Abstract
The journal Çalışma (Labour), which started to be published by the Ministry of Labour in September 1945, shortly after the establishment of the Ministry of Labour in June 1945, can be described as the first governmental social policy publication that not only made significant contributions to the formation of social policy in Turkey, but also served as a mouthpiece for the social policy approach of the period. The second half of the 1940s were founding years for social policy and labour relations in Turkey. The establishment of the Ministry of Labour in 1945, the abolition of the prohibition of establishing societies "on behalf of and on the basis of class" in 1946 and the transition to a regime of freedom of association, the regulation of the right to unionise with Law No. 5018 in 1947, the strengthening of union organisation from 1948 onwards and the emergence of strike debates are the main developments of these years in terms of labour relations. During these turbulent years, Çalışma has been a publication that deals with labour relations and social policy issues in detail. The journal included articles with contemporary and historical dimensions and in-depth analyses of a wide range of aspects of social policy. The journal covered a wide range of topics from social insurance to the right to work, from international labour issues to women workers. Çalışma was a voluminous journal regularly written by experts in social policy and labour relations of the period. The journal became the intellectual centre of social policy in the 1940s. In addition to being a social policy focus, the journal also became the mouthpiece of the regime's official social policy approach. As such, it took a distant and antagonistic stance towards social policy issues (class, politics, strikes, and internationalism) that were controversial for the regime. The journal, which was among the founding corpus of social policy in Turkey, also had a crucial constraint. The journal was characterised by the social policy approach of the regime and the ruling party, CHP. It had authoritarian and paternalistic approaches to the issue of strikes and trade unions. Therefore, it is also possible to characterise the journal as the regime's social policy publication. The journal, which started to be published in September 1945, was published monthly except for a few issues until September 1947, but then the publication period started to be interrupted. The last issue of Çalışma, which was published 29 issues in total, is dated December 1950. In this essay, all 29 issues of Çalışma published between September 1945 and December 1950 will be addressed. After the rule of the Democrat Party, a journal titled Çalışma Vekaleti Dergisi was published in 1953 and other journals titled Çalışma Dergisi and Çalışma Hayatımız were published in the 1970s. Yet, we believe that these journals were not a successor to Çalışma journal. Therefore, the essay will focus on Çalışma journal, which was published for 29 issues between 1945 and 1950.
- Subjects
SOCIAL policy
- Publication
Çalışma ve Toplum, 2023, Vol 79, Issue 4, p3073
- ISSN
1305-2837
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.54752/ct.1364594