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Labor and Power in the Late Ottoman Empire

Tobacco Workers, Managers, and the State, 1872–1912

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • 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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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introduction

    • Can Nacar
    Pages 1-14
  3. Conclusion

    • Can Nacar
    Pages 169-177
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 179-202

About this book

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.  

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of History, Koç University, İstanbul, Turkey

    Can Nacar

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

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Softcover Book USD 99.99
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Hardcover Book USD 99.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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