Unruly Labor: A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Andrea WrightSeries:Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies andPublish date:2024-10-22Pages:312
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9781503632578ISBN-10:1503632571UPC:9781503632578Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Middle East, Labor & Industrial Relations, ModernBook Topic:Arabian Peninsula, 20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.98 inchesWeight:1.3713Product ID:SC2QPNNAF1
Unruly Labor: A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea
In the mid-twentieth century, the Arabian Peninsula emerged as a key site of oil production. International companies recruited workers from across the Middle East and Asia to staff their expanding oil projects. Unruly Labor considers the working conditions, hiring practices, and, most important, worker actions and strikes at these oil projects. It illuminates the multiple ways workers built...
Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9781503632578ISBN-10:1503632571UPC:9781503632578Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Middle East, Labor & Industrial Relations, ModernBook Topic:Arabian Peninsula, 20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.98 inchesWeight:1.3713Product ID:SC2QPNNAF1
Andrea Wright is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies at William & Mary. She is the author of Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil (Stanford, 2021).
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