Toiling for Oil - A Social History of Petroleum in Iran

"The twentieth century has been widely recognized as the "Oil Century" due to the escalating importance of oil in global economics and politics. This innovative study sheds light on the lives and challenges of the Iranian workers who consistently supply oil to our markets, adding a bottom-up social and cultural narrative to petroleum history"--

Info autore

Touraj Atabaki is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History and Professor Emeritus, holder of the chair of the Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia at the Leiden University. He is a past President of the Association for Iranian Studies (AIS) and European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS). Previous publications include Azerbaijan: Ethnicity and the Struggle for Power in Iran (2000), and as editor, Men of Order: Authoritarian Modernization under Atatürk and Reza Shah (2004), The State and the Subaltern: Modernisation, Society and the State in Turkey and Iran (2007), Iran in the 20th Century: Historiography and Political Culture (2009), and Working for Oil: Comparative Social History of Labour in the Global Oil Industry (2018).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Touraj Atabaki, Touraj (International Institute of Social Atabaki, Atabaki Touraj
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.01.2025
• EAN: 9781108845878
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84587-8
• Pagine: 414
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; Iran, HISTORY / Middle East / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Economic history, Social and cultural history, Migration, immigration and emigration, Middle Eastern history, Petroleum, oil and gas industries, Industrialisation and industrial history