Parallel to this main trend Turkey made several agreements with the international institutions and followed some structural adjustment programs continuously. However, especially after 5 April 1994, the extent and scope of implication increased. Only after this time, most of the Turkish population felt the real oppression of structural adjustment. .
Namely, stabilization and structural adjustment policies have led to falling real wages, increased prices for some wage goods and loss of public sector jobs, with knock-on effects on the rest of the economy. These have had a particularly negative effect on some urban workers and their families, who mainly compose the lowest strata of urban life. Consequently, new strategies to cope with this oppression are emerged. Basic aims of these strategies are simply increasing the household resources by using the existing resources more intensely or generating new ones. Intensification includes different kind of economic activities, entering more household members into the workforce, starting businesses, migrating or renting out additional rooms and increasing own production of food and other crops. .
On this basis, in our study we aim to determine the typologies of survival strategies and their differentiations according to basic social stratification indices, namely occupation income and education. .
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SUBJECT.
What are the survival strategies, which emerged in urban Turkey after structural adjustment program? And is there a variation on the preferred survival strategies according to income levels?.
LITERATURE REVIEW.
In fact, whereas there is a large literature on the economic infrastructure on structural adjustment policies, works on the social impacts of such policies is almost inexistent. Therefore except some works that take the subject in a totalitarian perspective, most of the works are field studies focusing on a special event and its casual relation to the structural adjustment.