The Relationship of Everyday Life with Capital Accumulation and Labour Process in Kayseri

Ali Ekber Doğan

This study mainly perceived on the relationship between new labour processes and daily
life as a platform of its social reproduction. And one of our central premises is about the key
role of the activities and spatial practices of conservative and traditionalist political actors
for the socialization (or the naturalization) of neo-liberalism on the eye of urban labourers
and poors as extended social fragments of cities around the world. Firstly, I examine the
historical process (especially socio-political conjuncture of 1960’s and 1968 Movement) that
links up the Lefebvre’s critique of daily life to the analysis of the production of space. Then, I
tried to show the condition of labour classes with the specific type of capital accumulation
and labour process in Kayseri, that has been entered a new industrialisation process like
some other Anatolian cities since 1990’s. Kayseri also became as important and popular loci
of newly enriched religionist businessmen (known as KOBI owners -small and medium level
businessmen-).and Islamist municipalities of Turkey. Finally, I tried evaluate how dominant
space representation project of Islamist political actors at Kayseri suited with labour control
mechanisms of those businessmen.