War, work, and want : how the OPEC oil crisis caused mass migration and revolution / Randall Hansen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hansen, Randall, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Petroleum industry and trade--Social aspects.

Petroleum industry and trade.

Petroleum industry and trade--Political aspects.

Western countries--Emigration and immigration.

Western countries.

Middle East--History--1979-.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Randall Hansen focuses on how the oil shock transformed not just the economy proper and the geopolitics of the Middle East region, but also the global circulation of people and capital for decades afterward. Hansen asks why, against all expectations, global migration tripled after 1970. Arguing that the OPEC oil crisis explains everything, he shows how war, migration, and the desire for ever cheaper products made by migrants led to a massive upsurge in global migration after 1973.

Contents:

Cover

War, Work, and Want

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Prologue

1. Unexpected and Unwanted: Mass Migration Today

Part I: War and Work

2. Prussians, Jews, Pan-​Arabs, and Islamists: The Six-​Day War and Its Aftermath

3. The Great Revaluation: OPEC

4. Black Gold: Wealth and Immigration in the Gulf

5. Oil in Oil-​Poor States: Egypt

6. Oil's Curses: Iran and Iraq

7. Drunk on Oil and Gas: The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

8. No Blood for Oil: Iraq, 1990

9. The Taliban, 9/​11, and the Second Iraq War

10. The Arab Nightmare: Libya, Syria, and Global Displacement in the 2010s

11. ISIL and the European Refugee Crisis

Part II: Work and Want

12. Expensive Oil, Cheap Goods

13. The Assault on Working-​Class Wages

14. Where We Shop

15. What We Eat I: The Rise and Fall of Meatpacking Unions

16. What We Eat II: Migrant Exploitation and the Meatpacking Industry

17. What We Eat III: Migration, Slavery, Fish, and Fruit

18. Where We Live I: Building the American Dream

19. Where We Live II: Building Europe

20. Where We Live III: Asian Tigers, Migrant Toilers

21. How We Live: Keeping Houses, Raising Children

22. What We Wear

23. Back to the Future: Inflation, the Global Economy, and Migration in the 2020s

Appendix 1: Global Migrant Labor by Sector

Appendix 2: Interviews

Acknowledgments and Inspirations

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 31, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Hansen, Randall War, Work, and Want

ISBN:

0-19-765772-9

0-19-765771-0

0-19-765770-2