War, Work, and Want: How the OPEC Oil Crisis Caused Mass Migration and Revolution

ISBN-13: 9780197657690 / Twarda / 2023 / 336 str.

Canada R Randall (Canada Research Chair in Global Migration

Recenzje

In this magnificent book, Randall Hansen shows how one event, the 1973 oil crisis, has changed the world. In the West, it sent capitalism into a low-wage spiral that made life cheaper for the middle classes, but on the backs of exploited migrant workers at home and abroad. In the Middle East, the sudden oil riches produced war, instability, and refugees far beyond the region, with no end in sight. That history is events explained by other events, has never been more powerfully demonstrated.

O autorze

Randall Hansen is Canada Research Chair in Global Migration at the University of Toronto. He works on immigration and citizenship, demography and population policy and the effects of war on civilians. He is the author or Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany and Japan (2020, first edition on Germany 2009), Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance after Operation Valkyrie (Oxford, 2014), Sterilized by the State: Eugenics, Race and the Population Scare in 20th Century North America (with Desmond King, 2014), and Citizenship and Immigration in Post-War Britain (Oxford, 2000).