Introduction / Zachary Lockman -- Militant journeymen in nineteenth-century Damascus : implications for the Middle Eastern labor history agenda / Sherry Vatter -- Ottoman workers and the state, 1826-1914 / Donald Quataert -- Other workers : a critical reading of representations of Egyptian petty commodity production at the turn of the twentieth century / Kristin Koptiuch -- "Worker" and "Working Class" in pre-1914 Egypt : a rereading / Zachary Lockman -- Worker's voice and labor productivity in Egypt / Ellis Goldberg -- The development of working-class consciousness in Turkey / Feroz Ahmad -- Historiography, class, and Iranian workers / Assef Bayar -- Collective action and workers' consciousness in contemporary Egypt / Marsha Pripstein Posusney -- Will the real Egyptian working class please stand up? / Joel Beinin -- History for the many or history for the few? the historiography of the Iraqi working class / Eric Davis -- The history of the working classes in the Middle East : some methodological considerations / Edmund Burke III -- Labor history and the politics of theory : an Indian angle on the Middle East / Dipesh Chakrabarty
