Unruly Labor
A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea
Book • 2024
Andrea Wright's "Unruly Labor" offers a critical examination of labor regimes in Arabian Peninsula oil economies.
It challenges narratives focused on state power and resource control, instead highlighting the crucial role of transnational laborers.
The book traces labor migration across the Arabian Sea, showing how colonial legacies and neoliberal policies shape migrant workers' lives.
Wright argues that these workers actively resist exploitation, using various strategies to contest controlling structures.
Ultimately, the book critiques how oil economies depend on labor extraction, revealing racialized and gendered hierarchies within these systems.
It challenges narratives focused on state power and resource control, instead highlighting the crucial role of transnational laborers.
The book traces labor migration across the Arabian Sea, showing how colonial legacies and neoliberal policies shape migrant workers' lives.
Wright argues that these workers actively resist exploitation, using various strategies to contest controlling structures.
Ultimately, the book critiques how oil economies depend on labor extraction, revealing racialized and gendered hierarchies within these systems.
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Andrea Wright, "Unruly Labor: A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea" (Stanford UP, 2024)
