Lived space of white collar industrial employees : a case from Kocaeli

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2007

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Tirben, Elif Gül

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The aim of this study is to discuss white collar industrial employee’s alienation to urban life in Kocaeli. In this context, Lived Space of white collar industrial employees in a selected factory in the city is examined in terms of employees’ use and perception of the urban space. To this end, several expert interviews (local media representative, head of chamber of industry and head of the department of human resources of the selected factory) and subject group interviews were carried out and analyzed in combination with an application of a questionnaire conducted with 62 employees. At the micro level, the study shows that white collar industrial employees only feel limited “urban attachment” and perceive Kocaeli as a place they have put up with in order to gain a living. At the macro level, it is suggested that a spatial regime in which Kocaeli is the industrial periphery of the Istanbul Metropolitan Region is an important determinant of the assumed alienation of the subject group. In this context, the results attained from the field study show that although the white collar industrial employees use the urban space partially in their daily activities and establish some community relations, they are still alienated to the city in terms of their perception of the urban space and stuck in the centrifugal structure between the metropolitan centre and the industrial periphery.

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Urban Groups., Urban Sociology.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12608369/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/16719

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E. G. Tirben, “Lived space of white collar industrial employees : a case from Kocaeli,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2007.