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International Forest Products Congress (ORENKO), Trabzon, Turkey, 26 - 29 September 2018, pp.111
Forestry works have an important place in the Eastern Black Sea Region because of the wealth of forested areas, the multiplicity of forest villages, the intense forestry activities and the lack of different income sources of forest villagers. Therefore, forestry activities are one of the main industries for forest villagers to prevent unemployment and to reduce income imbalance between different regions. Forestry activities differ from other sectors because of job difficulty, difficult working conditions, limited time, temporary work, low income and work that should be done by forest villagers as required by forest law. The analysis of the socio-economic structure of a community is important both in giving photographs of the current period and in presenting the transformations of working class dynamics over time. In this study, the socioeconomic status of temporary wood harvesting workers was examined in the Eastern Black Sea region. Within the scope of the study, a questionnaire including questions about personal characteristics, family structures, economic incomes and job satisfaction was applied to the workers. As a result, it was determined that 36 percent of all male workers were between 31 and 40 ages, secondary school graduate (42.27%) and moderately experienced (45.43%). In addition, forest workers had no income sources except for timber harvesting (75.2%), and most of the workers were the livelihoods of their families (81.4%) working for 6-8 hours. Most of them are satisfied with timber harvesting (78.4%), and the main reasons for not being satisfied were determined as low income, lack of social security and difficult working conditions (57.1%).