Examines Ottoman and republican Turkish social and labour history from the end of the nineteenth century to the early 1950s.

Notes on contributors; 1. Ottoman and republican Turkish labour history: an introduction Touraj Atabaki and Gavin D. Brockett; 2. 'Ottoman Street' in America: Turkish leatherworkers in Peabody, Massachusetts ¿¿il Acehan; 3. Gendering Ottoman labour history: the Cibali Régie factory in the early twentieth century Gülhan Balsoy; 4. Working in a fez factory in Istanbul in the late nineteenth century: division of labour and networks of migration formed along ethno-religious lines Mustafa Erdem Kabaday¿; 5. Vertical bazaars of modernity: Western department stores and their staff in Istanbul (1889¿1921) Yavuz Köse; 6. Compulsory mine work: the single-party regime and the Zonguldak coalfield as a site of contention, 1940¿1947 Nur¿en Gürböa; 7. 'Our lives were not as valuable as an animal': workers in state-run industries in World War II Turkey Can Nacar; 8. The dynamics of working-class politics in early republican Turkey: language, identity, and experience Yi¿it Ak¿n.