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""A riveting account that redefines our understanding of labor, citizenship, and decolonization in Kuwait. Alex Boodrookas brilliantly illuminates both the power and limits of worker-led struggle, making this an indispensable contribution to Middle East history and global labor studies."" --Adam Hanieh, author of Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market ""Alex Boodrookas upends the conventional wisdom about oil and politics in the Persian Gulf by telling the story of a twentieth-century Kuwaiti labor movement, using, as he puts it, 'underutilized sources.' He isn't kidding. There is much that is new here. I am in awe.""--Robert Vitalis, author of Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security that Haunt U.S. Energy Policy ""Even for those of us who have thought long and hard about labor, capital, and empire in the Gulf, this book is a revelation. Beautifully constructed and composed, rich in Arabic-language sources, and insistent on recognition of how struggle by workers themselves has wrested rights for citizens and noncitizens, this book will become a classic of the field.""--Laleh Khalili, author of Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula

""Even for those of us who have thought long and hard about labor, capital, and empire in the Gulf, this book is a revelation. Beautifully constructed and composed, rich in Arabic-language sources, and insistent on recognition of how struggle by workers themselves has wrested rights for citizens and noncitizens, this book will become a classic of the field.""—Laleh Khalili, author of Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula ""Alex Boodrookas upends the conventional wisdom about oil and politics in the Persian Gulf by telling the story of a twentieth-century Kuwaiti labor movement, using, as he puts it, 'underutilized sources.' He isn't kidding. There is much that is new here. I am in awe.""—Robert Vitalis, author of Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security that Haunt U.S. Energy Policy ""A riveting account that redefines our understanding of labor, citizenship, and decolonization in Kuwait. Alex Boodrookas brilliantly illuminates both the power and limits of worker-led struggle, making this an indispensable contribution to Middle East history and global labor studies."" —Adam Hanieh, author of Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market

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Alex Boodrookas is Assistant Professor of History at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

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