SOCİAL CAPİTAL İN THE TEXTİLE INDUSTRY OF DENİZLİ: KİNSHİP AND FELLOW CİTİZENSHİP RELATİONSHİPS İN THE PRODUCTİON AND LABOUR ORGANİSATİON OF THE DOMİNANT FAMİLY FİRMS

This study aims to explain how the family firms of babadağ and buldan origin which are dominant in the textile industry of denizli, organize production and labour and how kinship and fellow citizenship relationships play a role as social capital in this process. in the study where some concepts of relational sociology have been used, family firms of babadağ and buldan origin which are dominant in terms of capital, were examined along with the firms of same origin that are not dominant, via an ethnography-based research in line with specific sampling. the aforementioned firms established a steep competition among themselves as well as interest-based solidarist relationships originating from the ties of kinship and fellow citizenship between one another. moreover, the fact that the dominant firms specialise in the products that the non-dominant ones cannot produce and that the dominant firms engage in non-textile industries with a high profit margin regenerates the oppression relationships with the non-dominant firms which are very difficult to be reversed. not only the aforementioned relationship structure is similar to the transformation in the industrial zones of third italy, the textile industry of denizli maintains its development in parallel to the industrial policies of turkey which is a rather developmentalist government.