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- Title
Kamu İşletmeciliğini Geliştirme Merkezi (KİGEM): Türkiye'de Özelleştirme Karşıtı Mücadelede Özgün Bir Deneyim.
- Authors
KUTLU, Denizcan
- Abstract
This study focuses on the Center for Development of Public Enterprise (KİGEM), which has a unique place in the anti-privatization struggle in Turkey; It examines its history in terms of its basic characteristics, activities, disintegration process and position in this struggle. The study is based on the examination of documents in the KİGEM archive and in-depth interviews with the members and managers of KİGEM. KİGEM was born in the privatization process, which is a fundamental agenda of global capitalism and neoliberalism, and in the seeking for an anti-privatization struggle. KİGEM was established within the union movement, within Harb-İş, in 1994, at a point where the efforts of intellectuals/academics and a union struggle came together, and gained Foundation status in 1996. KİGEM set out to protect public enterprises, increase their efficiency and develop them; however, it has been in an intense ideological, legal and operational struggle against privatization. KİGEM; With its actions and activities such as filing lawsuits, organizing scientific events, making publications and press releases, preparing news bulletins, and providing training, it has come to the fore as a leading force shaping and a moving subject of the anti-privatization struggle in Turkey. The meeting of intellectuals/academics and unions is the main factor that characterizes KİGEM. KİGEM, which was mainly based on the unions within which it was established and operated, was abandoned by the same union movement, underwent an "indirect liquidation" within the unique conditions of Turkey's transformation process, and became inactive step by step and was legally dissolved. The study deals with the story of KİGEM's struggle from leadership to dereliction.
- Subjects
NEOLIBERALISM; PRIVATIZATION; LABOR unions
- Publication
Çalışma ve Toplum, 2023, Vol 79, Issue 4, p3103
- ISSN
1305-2837
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.54752/ct.1364597