Overview

By the early twentieth century, consumers around the world had developed a taste for Ottoman-grown tobacco. Employing tens of thousands of workers, the Ottoman tobacco industry flourished in the decades between the 1870s to the First Balkan War—and it became the locus of many of the most active labor struggles across the empire. Can Nacar delves into the lives of these workers and their fight for better working conditions. Full of insight into the changing relations of power between capital and labor in the Ottoman Empire and the role played by state actors in these relations, this book also draws on a rich array of primary sources to foreground the voices of tobacco workers themselves.  

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9783030315610

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“The book is ambitious, covering a forty-year period and surveying a large geography including Istanbul and the empire’s two largest tobacco-production centers, Samsun and Kavala. Central units of analysis in Labor and Power are class dynamics and labor unrest in Ottoman centers of industry. … It will be an important milestone in Turkish labor history for years to come.” (Kaleb Herman Adney, Review of Middle East Studies, September 13, 2024)

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Can Nacar is Assistant Professor of History at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey. 

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