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This paper dwells on how single-industry towns (SITs) locally develop and are affected by the privatization of those dominant sectors. To do so, we attempt to discuss the potential results of local development and privatization tension in SITs. Typically, SITs are where one dominant industry becomes the leading actor in the local socioeconomic stru...
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... Ereğli coal mines were the first ever location for discovering coal in the Ottman Empire in 1829 (Özeken, 1944; Öğreten, 2006). As Oskay (1983: 65) stressed, the discovery in the 19 th century triggered the region's first phase of socio-economic transformation due to the rapidly increasing labor population (see Table 2). The labor population in the region was less than five hundred until the 1850s, yet it reached an extraordinary number of 50,000 workers in the 1960s (see Table 2). ...Context 2
... Oskay (1983: 65) stressed, the discovery in the 19 th century triggered the region's first phase of socio-economic transformation due to the rapidly increasing labor population (see Table 2). The labor population in the region was less than five hundred until the 1850s, yet it reached an extraordinary number of 50,000 workers in the 1960s (see Table 2). The density also resulted in a boom in urban population (Makal, 2006: 123;Roy, 1976: 125;Quataert, 2009: 91;1983: 54). ...Context 3
... public-private entrepreneurship modeling for establishing Erdemir in 1960 lasted until 1976 with the company's nationalization; thus, Erdemir became a SOF. Table 1 provides the latest data on the distribution of population all over Zonguldak province in line with all its districts, and Table 2 concludes the demographic transformations in the city over the years. The change and the implications of forming an SIT caught the attention of sociologists in Türkiye. ...