Title: Miners and the state in the Ottoman Empire : the Zonguldak coalfield, 1822-1920 /
Authors: Quataert, Donald, 1941-2011.
Publisher: Berghahn Books,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Coal miners Turkey Zonguldak İli History.; Coal mines and mining Turkey Zonguldak İli History.; Coal mine accidents Turkey Zonguldak İli History.; Turkey History
Abstract: "The story of the miners of Zonguldak presents a particularly graphic local lens through which to examine questions that have been of major concern to historians -- most prominently, the development of the state, the emergence of capitalism, and the role of the working classes in these large processes. This book examines such major issues through the actual experiences of coal miners in the Ottoman Empire. The encounters of mine workers with state mining officials and private mine operators do not follow the expected patterns of labor-state-capital relations as predicted by the major explanatory paradigms of modernization or dependency. Indeed, as the author clearly shows, few of the outcomes are as predicted.