Working for Oil Comparative Social Histories of Labor in the Global Oil Industry /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Atabaki, Touraj (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Bini, Elisabetta (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Ehsani, Kaveh (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Economic sociology.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Labor-History.; Social history.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.; Labor History.; Social History.

This volume looks at the social history of oil workers to investigate how labor relations and experiences have shaped the emergence of this global extractive industry. Three inter-related themes are investigated by scholars: the political life of labor, the productive life of labor, and the urban an...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction, Touraj Atabaki, Elisabetta Bini, Kaveh Ehsani
• THE POLITICAL LIFE OF OIL
• Invisible Work: Why is the Role of Labor in Oil Missing from the Literature?; Kaveh Ehsani
• The Zero-Sum Game of Early Oil Extraction Relations in Colombia: Workers, Tropical Oil, and the Police State, 1918-1938; Stefano Tijerina
• Tapline, Welfare Industrialism, and Mass Mobilization in Lebanon, 1950-1964; Zachary Cuyler
• Power of the Possible: Oil Workers and Dual Power in the Iranian Revolution, 1978-1982; Peyman Jafari
• Norwegian Oil Workers: From Rebels to Partners in a Tripartite System; Helge Ryggvik
• The Role of Labor in Transforming Nigerian Oil Politics; Andrew Lawrence
• The Political Life of Oil and Labour under the Citizens' Revolution in Ecuador; Gabriela Valdivia
• THE PRODUCTIVE LIFE OF OIL
• Far from Home, but at Home: Indian Migrant Workers in the Iranian Oil Industry; Touraj Atabaki
• Wildcat: Outsourcing, Expertise , and Oil in Postwar Houston; Betsy A. Beasley
• Pricing Labor in State-led Privatization: a Case Study of the Chinese Oil Industry; Kun-Chin Lin
• Cat Crackers and Picket Lines: Organized Labour in US Labour Gulf Coast Refineries; Tyler Priest
• THE SOCIAL AND URBAN LIFE OF OIL
• Building an Oil Empire: Labor and Gender Relations in American Company Towns in Libya, 1950s-1970s; Elisabetta Bini
• Heroic "Black Gold"? Working for Oil and Gas in Western Siberia during the 1960s and 1970s; Dunja Krempin
• The Tengiz Oil Enclave: Labor, Business, and the State; Saulesh Yessenova
• Doubly Invisible: Women's Labour in the US Gulf of Mexico Offshore Oil and Gas Industry; Diane Austin.