From the 30s to the 70s, it's the workers' movements are a significant, effective, powerful, countervailing force to capitalism. The only difference is that in oil exporting countries, these worker movements basically expect from the governments that the governments take control of the industry. It might be paradoxical, but nationalization does not necessarily reinforce workers' movements. To a certain extent, they weaken them.
Featuring Giuliano Garavini on his book The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century. The first of a two-part series on the 20th-century history of petrostates, petrocapitalists, and the world system.
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