Working for Oil

Working for Oil

Comparative Social Histories of Labor in the Global Oil Industry

Atabaki, Touraj; Bini, Elisabetta; Ehsani, Kaveh

Springer International Publishing AG

02/2019

430

Mole

Inglês

9783319859149

15 a 20 dias

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.
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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