250 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Once considered of little import, the social history of labor in the Middle East emerged in the 1980s as a major area of research, as historians sought to uncover the roots of working-class organizing. This volume, the first in an important new series, presents a broad overview of recent literature on the history of workers in the Middle East since 1800 in a bold effort to bring together new... Read more
Series Editor’s Preface -- Note on Translations and Transliterations -- Introduction -- The Social History Of Labor in the Ottoman Empire: 1800–1914 -- The Labor Movement in Turkey: Labor Pains, Maturity, Metamorphosis -- Making History, but Not of Their Own Choosing: Workers and the Labor Movement in Iran -- Labor in Syria: The Emergence of New Identities -- The Labor Movement in Israel: Ideology and Political Economy -- Reading from Left to Right: The Social History of Egyptian Labor -- The History of Labor and the Workers’ Movement in North Africa
Biography
Ellis Jay Goldberg is director of the Middle East Center and associate professor of political science at the University of Washington. His published work includes Tinker, Tailor and Textile Worker: Class and Politics in Egypt 1930-1952 (1986) and articles on contemporary Egyptian politics and economics in Comparative Studies in Society and History, Comparative Politics and the International Journal of Middle East Studies. To ensure his continued well-being his children decorate as many items of his clothing as possible with the ancient Middle Eastern symbol of handprints known in Arabic as the hand of Fatima and in Hebrew as the homsa.
