Overview
- Illuminates the lives of Ottoman tobacco workers, who were among the most active labor groups in organizing strikes and other forms of protests
- Examines a variety of primary sources, including documents from the Ottoman and British state archives, travelers’ accounts, and memoirs, in order to understand the extent and limits of workers’ agency in shaping their circumstances
- Appeals to scholars and students of Ottoman history, social history, and labor history
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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 labor struggles across the empire. Can Nacar delves into the lives of these workers and their fight for better working conditions. Full of insight into the changing relations of power between capital and labor in the Ottoman Empire and the role played by state actors in these relations, this book also draws on a rich array of primary sources to foreground the voices of tobacco workers themselves.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Reviews
“The book is ambitious, covering a forty-year period and surveying a large geography including Istanbul and the empire’s two largest tobacco-production centers, Samsun and Kavala. Central units of analysis in Labor and Power are class dynamics and labor unrest in Ottoman centers of industry. … It will be an important milestone in Turkish labor history for years to come.” (Kaleb Herman Adney, Review of Middle East Studies, September 13, 2024)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Can Nacar is Assistant Professor of History at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Labor and Power in the Late Ottoman Empire
Book Subtitle: Tobacco Workers, Managers, and the State, 1872–1912
Authors: Can Nacar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31559-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31558-0Published: 26 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31561-0Published: 26 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-31559-7Published: 16 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 202
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Labor History, Imperialism and Colonialism, History of the Middle East, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Social History