This paper analyses employee needs in the Romanian oil industry during the interwar period. Three distinct periods will be explored: the aftermath…
Through examinations of domestic servants in electrical advertisements and writings this article looks at the imaginations and realities of…
The oil and gas industry is generally imagined as a prototypical ‘men’s world’, with the multifaceted work women have performed largely invisible…
The Iranian oil nationalisation crisis, which ended in the coup that overthrew nationalist prime minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, is well known. An…
The arrival of widespread domestic electricity in rural Ireland was spread over two decades in the 1950s and 1960s, where the Electricity Supply…
Economics was a major field of struggle for anti-imperialist oil experts and activists. Building on recent scholarship on oil anti-colonialism,…
Emerging in the midst of a painful war of independence and deeply intertwined with the contested claims to territorial and economic sovereignty,…
This article sheds light on the arrival of petroleum in France, and more specifically in the Côte-d’Or department. While the first barrels were…
This article examines the early twentieth-century oil workforce in the Mid-Continent petroleum region of the United States, focusing on the…
