Acknowledgements

Acknowledgments

This chapter is a revised version of my Master’s Thesis that was defended in 2010 at Ankara University in the College of Political Sciences, Department of Labor Economics and Industrial Relations. I would like to thank my thesis advisor Professor Metin Özuğurlu for his guidance during the initial research. I am particularly grateful to Mehmet Ecevit and Ahmet Alpay Dikmen who have read and commented on the early version of this work. I must also thank the participants in the seminars “Agriculture and Food” and “Character of Capitalism in Turkey” under the supervision of Professor Mehmet Ecevit. Their comments on our similar interests were particularly helpful. I am indebted to Nail Dertli for his support and labor in the process of developing this case study; Demet Taşkan and Yonca Saka for their labor-intensive proofreading.