Class and Labor in Iran: Did the Revolution Matter? (Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East) - Hardcover

Numani, Farhad; Behdad, Sohrab

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0815630700 ISBN 13: 9780815630708

Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 2006

Synopsis

<p>In the past twenty-five years Iran has experienced a revolution and a turbulent post revolutionary period under an Islamic state that declared itself the government of the oppressed while it struggled to establish a utopian Islamic economy. In this pioneering work Farhad Nomani and Sohrab Behdad provide a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics of change and class configuration in Iranian society. Using a theoretical framework, they map the trajectory of class changes over time, specifically noting the movements between pre revolutionary and post revolutionary Iran. A centerpiece of the book is its analysis of the changes in the pattern of employment of women in the post revolutionary period. </p><p>Despite its conceptual and quantitative approach, the book is written in a clear and lucid style, making it accessible to a wide audience. The authors provide a fresh look into Iranian society by exploring the changes in its essential underlying economic structure, and in doing so, the book lays the foundation for comparative studies of social hierarchy of labor in other Middle Eastern countries.</p>

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About the Author

<b>Farhad Nomani</b> is a professor and cochair of the Department of Economics at the American University of Paris and was a member of the Faculty of Economics at Tehran University from 1972 to 1983. He is the coeditor of<i> Islam and Public Policy</i>, coauthor of <i>Islamic Economic Systems</i> and <i>The Secular Miracle: Religion, Politics, and Economic Policy in Iran</i>, and author of <i>The Development of Feudalism in Iran </i>(in Persian). <b>Sohrab Behdad</b> is a professor and the John E. Harris Chair in Economics at Denison University and was a member of the Faculty of Economics at Tehran University from 1972 to 1983. He is the former president of the Middle East Economic Association and a member of the editorial board of the <i>International Journal of Middle East Studies</i>. He is the coeditor of <i>Islam and Public Policy</i> and<i> Iran: Crisis of Islamic State</i> and author of articles on the postrevolutionary economy of Iran and the critique of Islamic economics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815630700
• ISBN 13: 9780815630708
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 268