From Worker-Peasant to Reluctant Revolutionary Industrial Worker in the Establishment of Iran's Copper Industry
The Sarcheshmeh Copper Mine, 1960s–1970s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9977929 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Abdolreza Alamdar (Leiden University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 321-343 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Iranian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-0862 • E-ISSN: 1475-4819 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/irn.2022.51 |
| OpenAlex | W4293211959 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
This paper studies the transformation of the worker-peasant to reluctant revolutionary industrial worker during the establishment of Iran's copper industry at the Sarcheshmeh copper mine from 1966 to 1979. It explores the procedural rules implemented by mine management, such as coercion and paternalism, and the nature of the employment relationship, including methods of control, bargaining, and dispute resolution. Consideration is given to engagement of different agents with welfare policy and industrial relations, including the nature of capital, the structure of ownership, the path of traditional labor relations, and international contributors on one side and workers’ agency and their structural power in the context of evolving domestic and international environments on the other. Also highlighted is the role played by the workers’ background and economic improvement and how these factors affected their political stance during the 1979 revolution
Agency (philosophy · Business · Coercion (linguistics · Context (archaeology · Economic growth · Economics · Paternalism · Peasant · Political science · Politics · Sociology · History · Islamic Studies and History · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Political Conflict and Governance
Encyclopaedia Iranica
The Sage Handbook of Industrial Relations
Iran Between Two Revolutions
Mining
Industrial Development, Culture and Working-Class Politics
From ‘ Amaleh (Labor) to Kargar (Worker)
Reasons to Revolt
The Genesis of the Iranian revolution
Born with a copper spoon
Labor unions and autocracy in Iran
The rise and fall of development theory
Social Engineering and the Contradictions of Modernization in Khuzestan's Company Towns
The Development of Capitalism in Africa
Industrialization and the Standard of Living of the Working Class in Iran, 1960-79
Iran, Dictatorship and Development
Work, Society and Politics
Working-Class Power, Capitalist-Class Interests, and Class Compromise
Industrial Paternalism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |