Working for Oil : Comparative Social Histories of Labor in the Global Oil Industry

Atabaki, Touraj

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Publisher's Synopsis

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 today. It brings together the work of scholars from a range of disciplines, approaching the social, political, economic and cultural dimensions of oil. The contributors analyze a number of key oil producing regions, including the Americas, the Middle East, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Europe and Africa.

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Book information

ISBN:	9783319564449
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:	31 Jan 2018
DEWEY:	331.76655
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	296
Weight:	864g
Height:	210mm
Width:	148mm
Spine width:	25mm