Working in Greece and Turkey

Leda Papastefanaki is an Associate Professorof Economic and Social History at the University of Ioannina, Greece and Collaborating Faculty Member at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH, Rethymno, Greece.

“[This volume] brings together a diverse range of pieces that focus on a wide variety of occupations and economic sectors: work done on the docks, factory floors, in electric plantations, households, printing workshops, and agricultural fields on two sides of the Aegean Sea. Each piece is well researched, rich, and interesting in its own right. Together, they delve into less explored themes and debates on the labour historiography of the regions concerned—the editors deserve praise for the attention they paid on this point.” • Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies“This book will prove valuable to a wide readership among labor researchers interested in history from below—both within and beyond the territory of the Ottoman Empire and its successor states.” • Journal of Modern Greek Studies“This is the first collection of essays in English that attempts to systematically examine and analyse this complex and turbulent period of Greek and Ottoman/Turkish history… With its focus on the labour movement and its relation to social change from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, the book is an invaluable contribution not only for Greek and Turkish studies scholars and students but also for researchers who focus on global labour history. I am confident that this well-written and superbly edited book will also attract a wide readership and become standard reading, as it integrates both countries into the global labour history tradition. It will undoubtedly be several years before this work is surpassed.” • Social History“This book offers a new perspective on global labour history studies by focusing on neglected, under-studied themes rather than traditional themes. It includes a multidimensional approach by mobilizing different disciplines such as migration studies, environmental history, and gender studies. It is very important for global labour history literature to evaluate the impact(s) and interaction of local councils, central administration, governments, trade unions, craft guilds in order to study conflicts and nationalism emerging in the labour market; and to examine the association between the wage information and paternalistic methods despite the scarcity of knowledge about the role of women and children in the labour market.” • Meltem“This is a very welcome addition to the historiography of Ottoman and post-Ottoman politics and society in the age of nationalism and expanding global capitalism.” • Margarite Poulos, Western Sydney University

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction and Historiographical Essay: Greek and Turkish Economic and Social History, and Labour HistoryLeda Papastefanaki and M. Erdem KabadayıPart I: Agrarian Property and Labour Relations, Rural and Urban Organization of WorkChapter 1. Were Peasants Bound to the Soil in the Nineteenth-Century Balkans? A Reappraisal of the Question of the New/Second Serfdom in Ottoman HistoriographyAlp Yücel KayaChapter 2. The ‘Invisible’ Army of Greek LabourersChristos HadziiossifChapter 3. ‘No Work for Anyone in this Country of Misery’: Famine and Labour Relations in Mid-Nineteenth-Century AnatoliaSemih ÇelikChapter 4. Rural Manufacturing in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Countryside: Textile Workers in Three Plovdiv VillagesFatma ÖncelChapter 5. Ethno-religious Division of Labour in Urban Economies of the Ottoman Empire in the Nineteenth CenturyM. Erdem Kabadayı and Murat GüvençDigital Appendix 5.1: Ethno-religious composition of observations in locations (.xlsx)Digital Appendix 5.2: PST2s and ethno-religious affiliations (.xlsx)Digital Appendix 5.3: PST2s in 16 locations (.xlsx)Part II: Political Change, Migration, and NationalismsChapter 6. Class Formation on the Modern Waterfront: Port Workers and Their Struggles in Late Ottoman IstanbulAkın SeferChapter 7. Labourers, Refugees, Revolutionaries: Ottoman Perceptions of Armenian EmigrationSinan DinçerChapter 8. The Greek Labour Movement and National Preference Demands, 1890–1922Nikos PotamianosChapter 9. Refugees, Foreigners, Non-Muslims: Nationalism and Workers in the Silahtarağa Power Plant, 1914–24Erol ÜlkerPart III: Labour Market and Emotions in the Twentieth CenturyChapter 10. “Fatherly Interest…”: Industrial Paternalism, Labour Management, and Gender in the Textile Mills of a Greek Island (Hermoupolis, Syros, 1900–1940)Leda PapastefanakiChapter 11. The Changing Organization of Production and Modes of Control, and the Workers’ Response: The Turkish Textile Industry in the 1940s and 50sBarış Alp ÖzdenChapter 12. ‘It is Fair to Ask for the Improvement of Their Fate’: The Demands, Mobilization, and the Political Orientation of the Press Workers and Printers of Patras, 1900–1940Asimakis PalaiologosChapter 13. Children’s Domestic Labour: Intimate Relations, Family Politics, and the Construction of Identity of Domestic Workers in Interwar GreecePothiti HantzaroulaEpilogueLeda Papastefanaki and M. Erdem KabadayıIndex