Özet:

Nazilli Printing Factory, which is one of the first places where workers experience as well as being the first printing factory in Turkey, started production on October 9, 1937 and was opened with the participation of Mustafa Kemal herself. The construction of the Factory, which was established within the framework of the First Five-Year Industrialization Plan through Sümerbank, took 18 months and the Soviet technical personnel contributed significantly to its construction. It is noteworthy that the factory, which draws attention in terms of working class formation, has more social and economic rights than other Sümerbank factories. However, in addition to these rights, malaria, which is very common in the region due to the fact that the region where the factory is located is swampy and wet, has caused great problems in terms of workers. One of the main reasons why the factory has difficulty in finding permanent and qualified workers is malaria. The present study focused on the disruptions in labor due to malaria. The aim of the study is to emphasize another aspect of the laboring experience by approaching the labor history study of the Early Republican Period from a different perspective. While the obstacles in front of the working experience are often discussed in terms of social, economic and cultural, this study is also discussed in terms of health. The effect of malaria on labor and in Nazilli is the main subject of this study. The fact that the number of studies dealing with this problem experienced in many of the Sümerbank factories is low is the main factor that brought this study into existence.

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