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 uncov
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 materi
This volume examines the social history of oil workers and investigates how labor relations have shaped the global oil industry during the twentieth century and
This text offers an examination of the economic history of the principal Arab countries, Turkey and Israel since 1918. Using the state as its major economic ana