Table of Contents

Notes on contributors; 1. Ottoman and republican Turkish labour history: an introduction Touraj Atabaki and Gavin D. Brockett; 2. 'Ottoman Street' in America: Turkish leatherworkers in Peabody, Massachusetts İşil Acehan; 3. Gendering Ottoman labour history: the Cibali Régie factory in the early twentieth century Gülhan Balsoy; 4. Working in a fez factory in Istanbul in the late nineteenth century: division of labour and networks of migration formed along ethno-religious lines Mustafa Erdem Kabadayı; 5. Vertical bazaars of modernity: Western department stores and their staff in Istanbul (1889–1921) Yavuz Köse; 6. Compulsory mine work: the single-party regime and the Zonguldak coalfield as a site of contention, 1940–1947 Nurşen Gürboğa; 7. 'Our lives were not as valuable as an animal': workers in state-run industries in World War II Turkey Can Nacar; 8. The dynamics of working-class politics in early republican Turkey: language, identity, and experience Yiğit Akın.

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Examines Ottoman and republican Turkish social and labour history from the end of the nineteenth century to the early 1950s.

About the Author

Touraj Atabaki is Professor of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia at the University of Leiden and Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History. His current work focuses on the labor history of Iran and comparative historiography of Iran and Central Asia since the nineteenth century. Gavin Brockett is Assistant Professor of Middle East and Islamic History at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada. A member of the Middle East Studies Association of North America and the Turkish Studies Association, Dr Brockett's research concentrates on the social history of Turkey.