Labor and Power in the Late Ottoman Empire

Tobacco Workers, Managers, and the State, 1872–1912

AvCan Nacar

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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By the early twentieth century, consumers around the world had developed a taste for Ottoman-grown tobacco. Employing tens of thousands of workers, the Ottoman tobacco industry flourished in the decades between the 1870s to the First Balkan War—and it became the locus of many of the most active labor struggles across the empire. Can Nacar delves into the lives of these workers and their fight for better working conditions. Full of insight into the changing relations of power between capital and labor in the Ottoman Empire and the role played by state actors in these relations, this book also draws on a rich array of primary sources to foreground the voices of tobacco workers themselves.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-11-26
Mått:148 x 210 x 13 mm
Vikt:291 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:202
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030315610

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Can Nacar is Assistant Professor of History at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey.

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“The book is ambitious, covering a forty-year period and surveying a large geography including Istanbul and the empire’s two largest tobacco-production centers, Samsun and Kavala. Central units of analysis in Labor and Power are class dynamics and labor unrest in Ottoman centers of industry. … It will be an important milestone in Turkish labor history for years to come.” (Kaleb Herman Adney, Review of Middle East Studies, September 13, 2024)

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction.- 2. The Ottoman Tobacco Industry: Entrepreneurs and Workers.- 3. Worked All Their Lives in Tobacco: Life inside the Factory and Warehouse Walls.- 4. "Ignorance" in Action: Labor Protests in the Hamidian Period.- 5. Long Live the Workers: The Revolutionary Euphoria of 1908.- 6. After the Euphoria: New Possibilities and Challenges.- 7. Conclusion.