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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

© 2022, Berghahn Books, New York, Oxford

© 2022, Berghahn Books, New York, Oxford

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Illustrations vii
  4. Acknowledgements ix
  5. Introduction and Historiographical Essay: Greek and Turkish Economic and Social History, and Labour History 1
  6. Part I Agrarian Property and Labour Relations, Rural and Urban Organization of Work
  7. 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 61
  8. Chapter 2 The ‘Invisible’ Army of Gree k Labourers 113
  9. Chapter 3 ‘No Work for Anyone in Thi s Country of Misery’ Famine and Labour Relations in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Anatolia 148
  10. Chapter 4 Rural Manufacturing in the Mid-Ninetee nth-Century Ottoman Countryside: Textile Workers in Three Plovdiv Villages 174
  11. Chapter 5 Ethno-religious Division of Labour in Urban Economie s of the Ottoman Empire in the Ninetee nth Century 204
  12. Part II Political Change, Migration and Nationalisms
  13. Chapter 6 Class Formation on the Modern Waterfront: Port Workers and Their Struggles in Late Ottoman Istanbul 233
  14. Chapter 7 Labourers, Refugees, Revolutionaries: Ottoman Perceptions of Armenian Emigration 255
  15. Chapter 8 The Greek Labour Movement and National Preference Demands, 1890–1922 286
  16. Chapter 9 Refugees, Foreigners, Non-Muslims: Nationalism and Workers in the Silahtarağa Power Plant, 1914–1924 308
  17. Part III Labour Market and Emotions in the Twentieth Century
  18. Chapter 10 ‘Fatherly Interest…’ Industrial Paternalism, Labour Management and Gender in the Textile Mills of a Greek Island (Hermoupolis, Syros), 1900–1940 337
  19. Chapter 11 The Changing Organization of Production and Modes of Control, and the Workers’ Response: The Turkish Textile Industry in the 1940s and 1950s 364
  20. Chapter 12 ‘It Is Fair to Ask for the Imp rovement of Their Fate’ The Demands, Mobilization and Political Orientation of the Press Workers and Printers of Patras, 1900–1940 390
  21. Chapter 13 Children’s Domestic Labour: Intimate Relations, Family Politics and the Construction of Identity of Domestic Workers in Interwar Greece 425
  22. Epilogue 452
  23. Index 459
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