Author: Lockman, Zachary; editor:
Title: Workers and Working Classes in the Middle East: Struggles, Histories, Historiographies
Description: Albany, State University of New York, (1994). orig.boards. 23x15cm, xxxi,341 pp, Small mark to side page-edge. Some top page-edge soil.. Binding edges & head of spine rubbed. VG. ¶ Contains 12 papers. Includes: S. Vatter "Militant Journeymen in 19th- Century Damascus: Implications for the Middle Eastern Labor History Agenda"; D. Quataert "Ottoman Workers & the State, 1826-1914"; K. Koptiuch " Other Workers: A Critical Reading of Representations of Egyptian Petty Commodity Production at the Turn of the 20th Century"; Z. Lockman " ' Worker' & ' Working Class' in pre-1914 Egypt: A Rereading"; E. Goldberg " Worker's Voice & Labor Productivity in Egypt"; F. Ahmad "The Development of Working Class Consciousness in Turkey"; A. Bayat "Historiography, Class & Iranian Workers"; M.P. Posusney "Collective Action & Workers' Consciousness in Contemporary Egypt"; J. Beinin "Will the Real Egyptian Working Class Please Stand Up?"; E. Davis "History for the Many or History for the Few? The Historiography of the Iraqi Working Class"; E. Burke III "The History of the Working Classes in the Middle East: Some Methodological Considerations"; D. Chakrabarty "Labor History & the Politics of Theory: An Indian Angle on the Middle East".

Keywords: Middle East Labour History, Labor Economics, Historiography, Iran Syria, Turkey, Iraq Egypt, Working Class, Classes Historical, Colonial Sociology