The social history of labor in the Middle East

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translations and Transliterations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Social History of Labor in the Ottoman Empire: 1800-1914 -- 3 The Labor Movement in Turkey: Labor Pains, Maturity, Metamorphosis -- 4 Making History, but Not of Their Own Choosing: Workers and the Labor Movement in Iran -- 5 Labor in Syria: The Emergence of New Identities -- 6 The Labor Movement in Israel: Ideology and Political Economy -- 7 Reading from Left to Right: The Social History of Egyptian Labor -- 8 The History of Labor and the Workers' Movement in North Africa -- About the Book and Editor -- About the Contributors -- Index.