Labor strikes
Strikes and Organizing; The Lost Fortresses of Workers / Mustafa Ahmadian
Nearly a century has passed since the fourteen-day nationwide strike of printing workers and the prolonged strike of oil industry workers in Abadan between 1300 and 1404 (1921-1925). These were the first genuine and official strikes in the labor movement in Iran. Subsequently, between 1304 and 1320 (1925-1941), widespread strikes occurred, which faced the harshest […]...
Read More
Created By:
Mustafa Ahmadian 
October 22, 2024
Rethinking the Role and Structure of Unions in Confronting Job Insecurity/ Mehrnaz Razaghi
The effects of “neoliberalism” on the world of work and labor unions are topics of contemporary debate in most countries. According to David Harvey, neoliberalism can be understood as a theory of political economy practices that seeks to enhance human well-being by maximizing entrepreneurial freedoms within an institutional framework characterized by the protection of private […]...
Read More
Created By:
Mehrnaz Razaghi October 22, 2024
The struggles of the sugar workers of Haft-Tappeh and the current situation of the protest movement / Amir Javaheri Langroudi.
The final words. Continuous protests in our society today, above all, are met with strategizing for the survival of the striking workers and breaking the imposition of hunger on them by employers and the government. This is often accompanied by media siege, intimidation, and suppression of the striking workers in order to exacerbate the effects […]...
Read More
Created By:
Amir Javaheri Langaroudi August 22, 2020
