Focuses on recent developments, employment, industrial relations and social dialogue issues in the oil production and oil transportation sectors.

This volume examines the social history of oil workers and investigates how labor relations have shaped the global oil industry during the twentieth century and today. It brings together the work of scholars from a range of disciplines, approaching the social, political, economic and cultural dimensions of oil. The contributors analyze a number of key oil producing regions, including the Americas, the Middle East, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Europe and Africa.

Thirty years of labor relations at Standard Oil Company, New Jersey.