Oil and Labour: The Pivotal Position of Persian Oil in The First World War and the Question of Transnational Labour Dependency

TY - CHAP

T1 - Oil and Labour: The Pivotal Position of Persian Oil in The First World War and the Question of Transnational Labour Dependency

AU - Atabaki, T.

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - Atabaki examines the conceptualization, articulation, and implementation of the Oil Company’s shifting labour policy against the background of greater global geopolitical shifts during the First World War. The chapter especially addresses the spatiality of labour recruitment across the Persian region, and beyond. Indeed, precisely when the oil industry became eager to expand its production, especially skilled workers were reluctant to work at the site near the warfront and opted to desert from working for oil industry; simultaneously, the supply of local unskilled labour became scarce, and caused a major hurdle for the company. Atabaki additionally foregrounds the oil workers’ living and working conditions in the wartime as well as their negotiation and resistance during the years immediately following the armistice.

AB - Atabaki examines the conceptualization, articulation, and implementation of the Oil Company’s shifting labour policy against the background of greater global geopolitical shifts during the First World War. The chapter especially addresses the spatiality of labour recruitment across the Persian region, and beyond. Indeed, precisely when the oil industry became eager to expand its production, especially skilled workers were reluctant to work at the site near the warfront and opted to desert from working for oil industry; simultaneously, the supply of local unskilled labour became scarce, and caused a major hurdle for the company. Atabaki additionally foregrounds the oil workers’ living and working conditions in the wartime as well as their negotiation and resistance during the years immediately following the armistice.

KW - Labour, Oil, Persia, Iran, WWI

M3 - Chapter

SN - 978-3-31958489-8

SP - 261

EP - 289

BT - Micro-Spatial Histories of Global Labour

A2 - De Vito, Christian G.

A2 - Gerritsen, Anne

PB - Palgrave Macmillan

CY - New york

ER -