Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements
Introduction and Historiographical Essay: Greek and Turkish Economic and Social History, and Labour History Leda Papastefanaki and M. Erdem Kabadayı
Part I: Agrarian Property and Labour Relations, Rural and Urban Organization of Work
Chapter 1. Were Peasants Bound to the Soil in the Nineteenth-Century Balkans? A Reappraisal of the Question of the New/Second Serfdom in Ottoman Historiography Alp Yücel Kaya
Chapter 2. The ‘Invisible’ Army of Greek Labourers Christos Hadziiossif
Chapter 3. ‘No Work for Anyone in this Country of Misery’: Famine and Labour Relations in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Anatolia Semih Çelik
Chapter 4. Rural Manufacturing in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Countryside: Textile Workers in Three Plovdiv Villages Fatma Öncel
Chapter 5. Ethno-religious Division of Labour in Urban Economies of the Ottoman Empire in the Nineteenth Century M. Erdem Kabadayı and Murat Güvenç Digital Appendix 5.1: Ethno-religious composition of observations in locations (.xlsx) Digital Appendix 5.2: PST2s and ethno-religious affiliations (.xlsx) Digital Appendix 5.3: PST2s in 16 locations (.xlsx)
Part II: Political Change, Migration, and Nationalisms
Chapter 6. Class Formation on the Modern Waterfront: Port Workers and Their Struggles in Late Ottoman Istanbul Akın Sefer
Chapter 7. Labourers, Refugees, Revolutionaries: Ottoman Perceptions of Armenian Emigration Sinan Dinçer
Chapter 8. The Greek Labour Movement and National Preference Demands, 1890–1922 Nikos Potamianos
Chapter 9. Refugees, Foreigners, Non-Muslims: Nationalism and Workers in the Silahtarağa Power Plant, 1914–24 Erol Ülker
Part III: Labour Market and Emotions in the Twentieth Century
Chapter 10. “Fatherly Interest…”: Industrial Paternalism, Labour Management, and Gender in the Textile Mills of a Greek Island (Hermoupolis, Syros, 1900–1940) Leda Papastefanaki
Chapter 11. The Changing Organization of Production and Modes of Control, and the Workers’ Response: The Turkish Textile Industry in the 1940s and 50s Barış Alp Özden
Chapter 12. ‘It is Fair to Ask for the Improvement of Their Fate’: The Demands, Mobilization, and the Political Orientation of the Press Workers and Printers of Patras, 1900–1940 Asimakis Palaiologos
Chapter 13. Children’s Domestic Labour: Intimate Relations, Family Politics, and the Construction of Identity of Domestic Workers in Interwar Greece Pothiti Hantzaroula
Epilogue Leda Papastefanaki and M. Erdem Kabadayı
Index
