OSMANLI İŞÇİ TARİHİNE BİR BAKIŞ: THE ORIENTAL CARPET MANUFACTURERS LIMITED’İN (ŞARK HALI KUMPANYASI) ÜRETİM ORGANİZASYONU, İŞÇİLERİ VE ÜCRET POLİTİKASI (1908-1914)
A LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF OTTOMAN LABOUR: PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION, WORKERS AND WAGE POLICY OF THE ORIENTAL CARPET MANUFACTURERS LIMITED (ŞARK HALI KUMPANYASI) (1908-1914)

Summary/Abstract: This study aims to explain the process of British origin The Oriental Carpet Manufacturers Limited [OCM] or aka Şark Halı Kumpanyası founded in England [London] on December 16, 1907 and acquired a legal personality from the beginning of the 20th century to its establishment and how the company has organized the home-employment system [putting – out ] it has been implementing in the Anatolian geography since 1908. Our study also determines the number of carpet weaving workers that the company has employed in the Anatolian geography as a result of the carpet production activities carried out within the home employment system, and it examines the importance of carpet weaving, which is one of the important production areas of the Ottoman manufacturing sector, in the history of Ottoman workers by considering the wage policy applied and the working conditions of carpet weaving workers. From 1908 until 1914, OCM employed 50 - 60 thousand carpet weaving workers in Anatolia alone and made significant profits thanks to the home employment system, it monopolized the Ottoman carpet weaving in this respect and at the same time it became one of the most important exporters of Anatolian - Ottoman carpets by continuing its carpet production activities until just before the First World War.

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