Overview
- Provides a range of analysis from scholars of multiple disciplines
- Uses a comparative approach to look at several key oil producing regions
- Examines the labor experience from social, political, and cultural angles
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Political Life of Oil
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The Productive Life of Oil
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The Social and Urban Life of Oil
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Reviews
“Working for Oil offers an invaluable compendium of social relations across the most vital vital industry of the Twentieth Century.” (Leon Fink, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
“While the literature on the petroleum industry is vast, research about oil workers is anything but. This collection addresses that gap, bringing together scholarship about labor from all oil regions of the world. The global and multidisciplinary approach is rich and complex, setting a high standard for future scholars and inviting them to follow suit.” (Myrna Santiago, Saint Mary’s College of California, USA)
“By attending to the complex role played by workers in the fossil fuel industries, this splendid book fills a major gap in contemporary analyses of the oil industry. Superbly researched, this collection promises to reshape debates and discussions in both labor studies and energy studies for years to come.” (Imre Szeman, University of Alberta, Canada)
“The present volume is a pioneering exploration of the oil proletariat, covering the history of major production sites on five continents, and the daily lives and struggles of oil workers in these places. The book is indispensable reading for all those interested in the global history of labor.” (Marcel van der Linden, International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands)
“There is no convincing answer to the question why historians of the oil industry have ignored its workers nor why working class historians have ignored the oil sector, but this collection clarifies why both kinds of histories are the worse for it. Working for Oil is a game changer.” (Robert Vitalis, University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Elisabetta Bini is Resarch Fellow at the University of Trieste, Italy. Her current research revolves around the history of international oil politics, in particular in the ways in which oil politics shaped relations between North Africa, Western Europe, and the United States after World War Two.
Kaveh Ehsani is Assistant Porfessor of International Studies at DePaul University, USA. His fields of interest include urban geography, critical social theory, and the political economy of development projects and their social and environmental repercussions. He is a regular media commentator and analyst on Iranian politics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Working for Oil
Book Subtitle: Comparative Social Histories of Labor in the Global Oil Industry
Editors: Touraj Atabaki, Elisabetta Bini, Kaveh Ehsani
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56445-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-56444-9Published: 31 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85914-9Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-56445-6Published: 21 January 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 430
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Labor History, Social History