Labor and Power in the Late Ottoman Empire Tobacco Workers, Managers, and the State, 1872-1912 /

• Main Author: Nacar, Can (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Labor-History.; Imperialism.; Middle East-History.; Russia-History.; Europe, Eastern-History.; Social history.; Labor History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; History of the Middle East.; Russian, Soviet, and East European History.; Social History.

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 labo...

Table of Contents:

• 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.