The Status of Manufacturers and Small Tradesmen in Bursa After the Exchange

The fall of the Ottoman Empire after long years of war has deeply affected the country's economic activities. Gradually declining manufacturing activity has come to a standstill. One of the current documents giving us the working life in recovery and revival after the War of Independence with its appearance in Bursa is the Newspaper of Meslek published in İstanbul. The Newspaper of Meslek, with the news it gives from this city almost every week, has strictly followed the working life in Bursa. In addition, thanks to the reports which can be checked and completed with the information in the Yearbook of Bursa Province belong to years 1925-1926, it can be possible to observe the changes and recoveries in Bursa. The problems in the work and production activities, in the environment created by the Exhcange, have been tried to be solved with the proposals shown in newspapers. The working conditions and problems of construction tradesmen, cocoon producers, weavers and barbers; the solution to development of such production branches as fishery and sericulture have been expressed by evaluating them in terms of the conditions of those days.