Workers and working classes in the Middle East : struggles, histories, historiographies

Author(s)

• Lockman, Zachary

Bibliographic Information

Workers and working classes in the Middle East : struggles, histories, historiographies

edited by Zachary Lockman

（SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East）

State University of New York Press, c1994

• : hbk. : acid-free paper
• : pbk. : acid-free paper

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book brings together for the first time the work of many of the leading scholars in the field of Middle East working-class history. Using historical material from nineteenth-century Syria, late Ottoman Anatolia, republican Turkey, Egypt from the late nineteenth century through the Sadat period, Iran before and after the overthrow of the Shah, and Ba`thist Iraq, the authors explore different forms and interpretations of working-class identity, action, and organization as expressed in language, culture, and behavior. In addition, they examine different narratives of labor history and the place of workers in their respective national histories. Included are articles by Feroz Ahmad, Assef Bayat, Joel Beinin, Edmund Burke III, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Eric Davis, Ellis Goldberg, Kristin Koptiuch, Zachary Lockman, Marsha Pripstein Posusney, Donald Quataert, and Sherry Vatter. The book provides not only an introduction to the "state of the field" in Middle East working-class history but also demonstrates how that field is being influenced by the new paradigms which are transforming labor history and social history more broadly worldwide. It also opens the way for fruitful comparisons among Middle Eastern countries and between the Middle East and other parts of the world.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Zachary Lockman 1. Militant Journeymen in Nineteenth-Century Damascus: Implications for the Middle Eastern Labor History Agenda Sherry Vatter 2. Ottoman Workers and the State, 1826-1914 Donald Quataert 3. Other Workers: A Critical Reading of Representations of Egyptian Petty Commodity Production at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Kristin Koptiuch 4. "Worker" and "Working Class" in pre-1914 Egypt: A Rereading Zachary Lockman 5. Worker's Voice and Labor Productivity in Egypt Ellis Goldberg 6. The Development of Working-Class Consciousness in Turkey Feroz Abroad 7. Historiography, Class, and Iranian Workers Feroz Abroad 8. Collective Action and Workers' Consciousness in Contemporary Egypt Marsha Pripstein Posusney 9. Will the Real Egyptian Working Class Please Stand Up? Joel Beinin 10. History for the Many or History for the Few? The Historiography of the Iraqi Working Class Eric Davis 11. The History of the Working Classes in the Middle East: Some Methodological Considerations Edmund Burke III 12. Labor History and the Politics of Theory: An Indian Angle on the Middle East Dipesh Chakrabarty About the Contributors Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA21529335
• ISBN:
  • 0791416658
  • 0791416666
• LCCN: 92042701
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Albany
• Pages/Volumes: xxxi, 341 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HD8656
  • DC20 : 305.5/62/0956
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Working class -- Middle East -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Labor movement -- Middle East -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Working class -- Middle East -- Historiography
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA1352453X