El. knyga: Labour History and the Economy in Iran: Workers, Entrepreneurs and the State

This book brings together noted scholars of Iranian labour and economic history, who use an impressive array of primary and secondary source materials to elucidate dynamics of trade, industrialization, guilds, banking, social policy and entrepreneurship over a roughly 60-year period. The reader is introduced to critical actors such as craftsmen, merchant associations, trade unions, workers, employers and state officials. Labour History and the Economy in Iran is a highly informed and instructive collection. * Valentine M. Moghadam, Professor, Northeastern University, USA * This is an original and sophisticated collection dealing with the Iranian economy and those who worked in it. It is quite unique in its objective, to integrate labour history into the wider landscape of the rapidly developing modern economy and it is both successful and highly illuminating. It will become the classic account in its field. * Stephanie Cronin, Research Fellow, University of Oxford, UK * This impressive collection leverages academic and policy expertise from contributors based both in Iran and in the global Iranian Studies community. It is a rare feat of intellectual collaboration that offers something important to students of Irans modern socioeconomic history: compelling examples of individual, communal and institutional agency in shaping the 20th century foundations of Irans economy, not simply reacting to 'reforms from above'. By considering state data alongside private archives, press content and even memoirs, Dr. Yoshinari, Dr. Afacan and their colleagues demonstrate the potential of new lines of inquiry that are, nonetheless, rooted in the appropriate historiography. * Camron Amin, Professor, University of Michigan- Dearborn, USA *