Failing to join the bloc of NICs: the international division of labour, industrial structure and labour politics in Turkey

To define the changing nature of the industrial structure of Turkey, this article aims to analyse the place of Turkish industry within the global capitalist order or, to put it differently, within the ‘current juxtaposition of countries’ as the regulationists analyse it. With this aim in mind, we firstly discuss the effects of the expansion of production on a particular peripheral country, i.e. Turkey, after the 1970s, and then try to show where this particular country fits into the global capitalist ‘order’. Lastly, this study aims to analyse the worsening conditions of the reproduction of the working class under the pressure of the impasse in current accumulation strategy, which has brought additional stress over wages.