Working in Greece and Turkey

Leda Papastefanaki is an Associate Professorof Economic and Social History at the University of Ioannina, Greece and Collaborating Faculty Member at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH, Rethymno, Greece.

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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