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    Netice-I sa’y ve kayınvalide: Şehrin emek coğrafyası
    (Istanbul University, 2021) Günay-Erkol, Çimen; Humanities and Social Sciences; ERKOL, Çimen Günay
    The author Mehmet Tahir, an officer in the editorial office of the accounting section of the Customs Office, followed Ahmet Midhat's recommendation to discuss economics in fiction in order to promote commerce and entrepreneurship. His long story Netice-i Sa'y (1893-4) shows dramatic scenes from the life of a boy who departs from an Arabic port and arrives in Istanbul alone and penniless, and, with great effort, starts a new life. Mehmet Tahir, imitating Ahmet Midhat, advises the reader about labor; he uses the transformation of the boy in terms of his economic conditions in Istanbul around Ottoman economic morals to discuss themes such as work, patience, and the entrepreneurial spirit. In his Kayinvalide, which was published a year later, the question of how labor can be fairly shared in a family is explicitly at the center. A mother wants her son to marry an ugly girl, to make her an obedient domestic worker at home. But her son falls in love with the ugly bride chosen by his mother, and defends her against his mother, who attempts to treat her like a slave at home. Mehmet Tahir deals with the new generation's resistance to old traditions and emphasizes in this story that the supervision of justice at home is what sustains a family. Mehmet Tahir explored the labor geography of Istanbul in and out of the home. This paper explores the emphasis on justice in Mehmet Tahir's texts together with his views on the question of prioritizing personal good over common good and his views on family as the basic building block of society.