Miners and the state in the Ottoman Empire
Subtitle: the Zonguldak coalfield, 1822-1920
By: Donald Quataert
Series: International studies in social history;; v. 7
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Coal miners -- Turkey -- Zonguldak İli -- History; Coal mines and mining -- Turkey -- Zonguldak İli -- History; Coal mine accidents -- Turkey -- Zonguldak İli -- History; Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
Description: "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.

The fate of these miners has much to offer both Ottoman and Middle East specialists as well as scholars of the developing world and, more generally, those interested in the connections between economic development and social and political change"--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.