Acknowledgments
Introduction
Zachary Lockman
1. Militant Journeymen in Nineteenth-Century Damascus: Implications for the Middle Eastern Labor History Agenda
Sherry Vatter
2. Ottoman Workers and the State, 1826-1914
Donald Quataert
3. Other Workers: A Critical Reading of Representations of Egyptian Petty Commodity Production at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Kristin Koptiuch
4. "Worker" and "Working Class" in pre-1914 Egypt: A Rereading
Zachary Lockman
5. Worker's Voice and Labor Productivity in Egypt
Ellis Goldberg
6. The Development of Working-Class Consciousness in Turkey
Feroz Abroad
7. Historiography, Class, and Iranian Workers
Feroz Abroad
8. Collective Action and Workers' Consciousness in Contemporary Egypt
Marsha Pripstein Posusney
9. Will the Real Egyptian Working Class Please Stand Up?
Joel Beinin
10. History for the Many or History for the Few? The Historiography of the Iraqi Working Class
Eric Davis
11. The History of the Working Classes in the Middle East: Some Methodological Considerations
Edmund Burke III
12. Labor History and the Politics of Theory: An Indian Angle on the Middle East
Dipesh Chakrabarty
About the Contributors
Index