Note 5 — Chapter II · BACKWARD TURKEY INVITES ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION

There were a few factories erected in Turkey by foreign capitalists, notably those of the Oriental Carpet Manufacturers, Ltd., the American Tobacco Company, and the Deutsche-Levantischen Baumwollgesellschaft. In general, however, the factory and the factory town were not common phenomena in Asiatic Turkey. An interesting account of the effects of the Industrial Revolution upon economic conditions in Turkey is that of Talcott Williams, Turkey a World Problem of Today (Garden City, 1921), pp. 268 et seq.; W. S. Monroe, Turkey and the Turks: an Account of the Lands, Peoples and Institutions of the Ottoman Empire (London, 1909), Chapter X; M. J. Garnett, Turkish Life in Town and Country (London, 1904).