Working for Oil

1. Introduction
Touraj Atabaki, Elisabetta Bini, Kaveh Ehsani

2. Disappearing the Workers: How Labor in the Oil Complex Has Been Made Invisible
Kaveh Ehsani

Part I. The Political Life of Oil

3. The Zero-Sum Game of Early Oil Extraction Relations in Colombia: Workers, Tropical Oil, and the Police State, 1918–1938
Stefano Tijerina

4. Fluid History: Oil Workers and the Iranian Revolution
Peyman Jafari

5. Norwegian Oil Workers: From Rebels to Parters in the Tripartite System
Helge Ryggvik

6. The Role of Labor in Transforming Nigerian Oil Politics
Andrew Lawrence

7. The End of “The Good Fight”? Organized Labor and the Petro-nation During the Neoliberalization of the Oil Industry in Ecuador
Gabriela Valdivia, Marcela Benavides

Part II. The Productive Life of Oil

8. Indian Migrant Workers in the Iranian Oil Industry 1908–1951
Touraj Atabaki

9. Cat Crackers and Picket Lines: Organized Labor in US Gulf Coast Oil Refining
Tyler Priest

10. White-Collar Wildcatters and Wildcat Strikes: Oil Experts, Global Contracts, and the Transformation of Labor in Postwar Houston
Betsy A. Beasley

11. Heroic “Black Gold”? Working for Oil and Gas in the Western Siberian Oil and Gas Complex of the 1960–1970s
Dunja Krempin

Part III. The Social and Urban Life of Oil

12. Building an Oil Empire: Labor and Gender Relations in American Company Towns in Libya, 1950s–1970s
Elisabetta Bini

13. Tapline, Welfare Capitalism, and Mass Mobilization in Lebanon, 1950–1964
Zachary Davis Cuyler

14. “Oil Is Our Wet Nurse”: Oil Production and Munayshilar (Oil Workers) in Soviet Kazakhstan
Saulesh Yessenova

15. Doubly Invisible: Women’s Labor in the US Gulf of Mexico Offshore Oil and Gas Industry
Diane E. Austin

Keywords: Social Sciences, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Labor History, Social History