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Topical Articles
The Working Class after the 2009 Iranian Presidential Election: Seclusion or Coalition?
Mohammad Maljoo
This paper critically appraises a discourse articulated by a few Iranian left intellectuals who believe that a coalition of workers with other social classes is not beneficial for the working class without a hegemonic presence of workers in the Green Movement.
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Thirty Years of Social Class Reshuffling in Iran
Sohrab Behdad and Farhad Nomani
With a bird’s-eye view of the class nature of the Iranian workforce in 2006, this paper indicates a society consisting of petty bourgeoisie, working-class employees, and a fragmented class of small capitalists, side by side with a public sector that employs a quarter of the labor force. According to the authors, the class composition of the employed workforce indicates that 40 percent are located in the petty bourgeoisie (including unpaid family workers), 30 percent are working-class employees of the private sector and the state, 7.5 percent are capitalists, 12 percent are in the middle class (70 percent of which are employed by the state), and 9 percent are political functionaries of the state.
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Anatomy of Revolution: Industrial Working Class and the 1979 Revolution
Ahmad Ashraf
This paper attempts to describe and analyze the role of the Iranian working class in Iran’s 1979 revolution. The emphasis is on the collective activities of the Iranian workers, in both quantitative and qualitative contexts, in the span of three historically significant periods in the 1970’s. The first period covers the decade preceding the revolution, from early 1970 to the end of Summer of 1978. The second period consists in the months of October and November of 1978 when a coalition of pro revolutionary white-color and blue color workers in the public sector emerged and overshadowed the limited revolutionary activities of the industrial working class of the private sector. The third period covers the first year following the victory of the revolutionary movement commonly called “the Spring of Freedom” when limited freedom for political activities allowed for the flourishing of pro-working class organizations in the main urban centers and the formation of a limited number of workers committees to run their industrial establishments.
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The Labor Market in Post-revolutionary Iran
Hassan Taei
This paper studies three major constituents of the labor market, labor demand and supply as well as unemployment, in post-revolutionary Iran. By examining the supply side of the labor market, the study shows that Iran was faced with 36-million individuals as the long-run and medium-run potential labor supply in 2004. A coming challenge in the Iranian economy is the presence of a 24.5-million population whose age ranges from 10 to 24 years. On the other hand, by examining the demand side of the post-revolutionary labor market, the study also shows that the Iranian economy needs to annually create more than one million job opportunities for the long term period.
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The Minimum Wage in Iran
Farshid Yazdani
While reviewing some theoretical aspects of minimum wage regulations as well as related data in Iran since fifty years ago, this paper reaches the conclusion that a great deal of minimum wage problem in Iranian economy can be solved by focusing on those relationships which are beyond the employee-employer relations.
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Kaar and Karegar: A Review of Labor Issues in the Journal Kaar
Anoush Salehi
This paper reviews the worker issues posed in Kaar journal, the official organ of Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas (Saazmaan-e Chrikhay-e Fadaee-e Khalgh), whose first series was published from March 1979 until June 1981.
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