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Comrades Estranged : Labor and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century Persian Gulf.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boodrookas, Alex.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (376 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- In 1975, Kuwaiti workers orchestrated arguably the most powerful citizen-led movement for noncitizen rights in the history of the Persian Gulf.Their efforts built on decades of wide-ranging struggle over the meanings and outlines of citizenship.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half-title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One. Deportation States | 1900-1950
- Two. The Wages of Oil | 1940-1955
- Three. Arab Labor, Arab Oil | 1945-1959
- Four. The Fear Complex | 1952-1961
- Five. Are We Really Independent? | 1960-1965
- Six. The Radical Sixties | 1965-1970
- Seven. Exporting Oil, Importing Labor | 1971-1976
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5036-4648-3
- 9781503646483
- OCLC:
- 1581076950
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