Abstract

JOURNAL OF BALKAN AND NEAR EASTERN STUDIES 2022, VOL. 24, NO. 1, 175–192 BOOK REVIEWS Review: Working in Greece and Turkey: A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation-States, 1840–1940, by Leda Papastefanaki and M. Erdem Kabadayı (eds). Berghahn Books. 2020, $179.00/£132.00 / Hb Working in Greece and Turkey: A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation-States, 1840–1940, edited by Leda Papastefanaki and M. Erdem Kabadayı, is a welcome contribution to the re-burgeoning field of Labour History from labour historians of the Ottoman Empire, Greece, and Turkey. The volume brings together 13 articles investigating the histories of labour and working classes from both sides of the Aegean Sea, critically attempting to situate these individual pieces through a Global Labour History approach. Working in Greece and Turkey was preceded by an international conference, titled ‘Working in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey: Ottoman and Turkish Labour History within a Global Perspective’ held in Istanbul in November 2011, and comes out as a part of the International Studies in Social History series. In their introduction to the volume, Papastefanaki and Kabadayı provide a comprehensive overview of the literature of labour history from the two concerned regions in Greek, Turkish, English, and French.