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Unruly Labor: A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea
Paperback
Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and
Arabian PeninsulaGeneral Middle Eastern HistoryGeneral World HistorySocial Movements
ISBN13: 9781503639423
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: Oct 22 2024
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the mid-twentieth century, the Arabian Peninsula emerged as a key site of oil production. International companies recruited workers from across the Middle East and Asia to staff their expanding oil projects. Unruly Labor considers the working conditions, hiring practices, and, most important, worker actions and strikes at these oil projects. It illuminates the multiple ways workers built transnational solidarities to agitate for better working conditions, and how worker actions informed shifting understandings of rights, citizenship, and national security.
Andrea Wright highlights the increasing associations between oil, governance, and racialized management practices to map how labor was increasingly depoliticized. From the 1940s to 1971, a period that includes the end of formal British imperialism in the Arabian Sea and the development of new state governments, citizenship became both an avenue for workers to advocate for their rights and, simultaneously, a way to limit other solidarities. Examining the interests of workers, government officials, and oil company managers alike, Wright offers a new history of Middle Eastern oil and twentieth-century capitalism--a history that illuminates how labor management and national security concerns have shaped state governance and economic policy priorities.
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