About the Author

Habib Ladjevardi has been director of the Iranian Oral History Project at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies since 1981 and chair of the editorial board of the Harvard Middle Eastern Monograph Series since 1990.

Reviews

A rich and stimulating book that will do much to refocus the study of modern Iranian history away from undue emphasis upon Shahs, generals, and mollahs. A pioneering study that seeks to answer why an independent trade union movement failed to develop between 1906 and 1963.