Fluid History: Oil Workers and the Iranian Revolution

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Authors
Publication date 2018
Host editors
  • T. Atabaki
  • E. Bini
  • K. Ehsani
Book title Working for Oil
Book subtitle Comparative Social Histories of Labor in the Global Oil Industry
ISBN
  • 9783319564449
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783319564456
Pages (from-to) 69-98
Publisher Cham: Palgrave Macmillan
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies (ARTES)
Abstract The Iranian revolution is mostly associated with mass demonstrations as its mode of mobilization and with the clerics as its leading actors. Jafari’s historical account of the oil strikes turns our attention to a less known aspect of the revolution. He argues that these were key to the development of dual power in January 1979 and that, by taking control of them, Khomeini was able to determine the outcome of the revolution. This stresses the political rather than the religious character of the revolution, and discloses its contingent nature, which suggests the possibility of other outcomes.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56445-6_4
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