Marshall Plan’s workers’ housing program and trade union cooperatives in France and Turkey

Karatas, Sila

conference presentation

April 28, 2023

News Forms of Urban Living, Regional Seminar #4 Exploring the Twentieth-Century Historic Thematic Framework in the European Context. Organised by Getty Conservation Institute, ICOMOS Turkey National Scientific Committee on 20th Century Heritage, Istanbul Technical University

Marshall Plan (1948-1952), introduced for postwar reconstruction in Europe, marks the Cold War economy-political and foreign policy of the US. Besides building the Western Bloc, its financial and technical assistance programs launched the self-help paradigm for housing development, design, and construction. This presentation portrays Marshall Plan’s workers’ housing program for cooperatives founded by US-assisted trade unions in France and Turkey.