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

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

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Atabaki, Touraj (Editor), Bini, Elisabetta (Editor), Ehsani, Kaveh (Editor)
Summary:X, 430 p. 23 illus., 6 illus. in color.
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:
Economic sociology.
Energy policy.
Energy and state.
Labor.
History.
Social history.
Economic Sociology.
Energy Policy, Economics and Management.
Labor History.
Social History.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56445-6
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction, Touraj Atabaki, Elisabetta Bini, Kaveh Ehsani
  • THE POLITICAL LIFE OF OIL
  • Invisible Work: Why is the Role of Labor in Oil Missing from the Literature?; Kaveh Ehsani
  • The Zero-Sum Game of Early Oil Extraction Relations in Colombia: Workers, Tropical Oil, and the Police State, 1918-1938; Stefano Tijerina
  • Tapline, Welfare Industrialism, and Mass Mobilization in Lebanon, 1950-1964; Zachary Cuyler
  • Power of the Possible: Oil Workers and Dual Power in the Iranian Revolution, 1978-1982; Peyman Jafari
  • Norwegian Oil Workers: From Rebels to Partners in a Tripartite System; Helge Ryggvik
  • The Role of Labor in Transforming Nigerian Oil Politics; Andrew Lawrence
  • The Political Life of Oil and Labour under the Citizens’ Revolution in Ecuador; Gabriela Valdivia
  • THE PRODUCTIVE LIFE OF OIL
  • Far from Home, but at Home: Indian Migrant Workers in the Iranian Oil Industry; Touraj Atabaki
  • Wildcat: Outsourcing, Expertise , and Oil in Postwar Houston; Betsy A. Beasley
  • Pricing Labor in State-led Privatization: a Case Study of the Chinese Oil Industry; Kun-Chin Lin
  • Cat Crackers and Picket Lines: Organized Labour in US Labour Gulf Coast Refineries; Tyler Priest
  • THE SOCIAL AND URBAN LIFE OF OIL
  • Building an Oil Empire: Labor and Gender Relations in American Company Towns in Libya, 1950s-1970s; Elisabetta Bini
  • Heroic “Black Gold”? Working for Oil and Gas in Western Siberia during the 1960s and 1970s; Dunja Krempin
  • The Tengiz Oil Enclave: Labor, Business, and the State; Saulesh Yessenova
  • Doubly Invisible: Women’s Labour in the US Gulf of Mexico Offshore Oil and Gas Industry; Diane Austin.

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