Academic Publications

Books

  • باز شکل گیری و شکل گیری طبقه کارگر در صنعت نفت [Class Formation and Re-formation in the Iranian Oil Industry, 1908-1978].

    (Forthcoming in 2025; Persian)

  • Worlds of Labour book cover

    Worlds of Labour Turned Upside down: Revolutions and Labour Relations in Global Historical Perspective

    (Brill, 2021; English. Volume Editors: Pepijn Brandon, Peyman Jafari, and Stefan Müller)

  • Iran in the Middle East book cover

    Iran in the Middle East: Transnational Encounters and Social History

    (I.B. Tauris, 2016; English. Volume Editors: Houchang Chehabi, Peyman Jafari, Maral Jefroudi)

  • Der andere Iran: Geschichte und Kultur von 1900 bis zur Gegenwart

    Der andere Iran: Geschichte und Kultur von 1900 bis zur Gegenwart

    (C.H. Beck, 2010; German)

  • Het Andere Iran: Van De Revolutie Tot Vandaag

    (Ambo, 2009; Dutch)

Selected Journal Articles & Book Chapters

  • Iranian Studies journal cover

    "Revolt with a Revolutionary Perspective"

    Iranian Studies, Volume 56, Issue 3, July 2023, pp. 569 - 575.

  • “Negahi Be E‘terazat-e Kargaran-e San‘at-e Naft Dar Iran-e Emruz” [An Analysis of Labor Protests in the Oil Industry in Contemporary Iran].”

    Goftogu, 94 (December 2022).

  • Handbook cover

    “Labour in the Making of the International Relations of Oil: Resource Nationalism and Trade Unions"

    In Handbook on Oil and International Relations, edited by Roland Dannreuther and Wojciech Ostrowski, 208–22. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022.

  • MERIP cover

    “Putting Workers on the Map”

    Middle East Report 300 (Fall 2021).

  • Map of Workers Strike in Iran 2021

    "Labor Organizing on the Rise Among Iranian Oil Workers"

    Mohammad Ali Kadivar, Peyman Jafari, Mehdi Hoseini, Saber Khani. Middle East Report Online, August 25, 2021.

  • Cover of "If Not Us, Who?"

    “Impasse in Iran: Workers Versus Authoritarian Neoliberalism”

    In If Not Us, Who? Global Workers Against Authoritarianism, Fascism, and Dictatorships, edited by Dario Azzellini, 143-49. Hamburg: VSA Verlag, 2021. (English)

    “Festgefahrener Konflikt: Arbeiter/innen gegen autoritären Neoliberalismus.” In Mehr als Arbeitskampf! Workers weltweit gegen Autoritarismus, Faschismus und Diktatur, edited by Dario Azzellini, 154-161. Hamburg: VSA Verlag, 2021. (German)

  • “The Showras in the Iranian Revolution: Labor Relations and the State in the Iranian Oil Industry, 1979-82”

    In World of Labour Turned Upside down - Revolutions and Labour Relations in Global Historical Perspective, edited by Pepijn Brandon, Peyman Jafari and Stefan Müller, 252-285. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020.

  • Photo of children with oil cans

    “Linkages of Oil and Politics: Oil Strikes and Dual Power in the Iranian Revolution.”

    Labor History 60, no. 1 (2019): 1-20.

  • Cover of Working for Oil

    “Fluid History: Oil Workers and the Iranian Revolution"

    In Working for Oil: Comparative Social Histories of Labor in the Global Oil Industry, edited by Touraj Atabaki, Elisabetta Bini, and Kaveh Ehsani, 69–98. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

  • Workers of the World cover

    "Introduction: Against All Odds - Labour Activism in the Middle East and North Africa"

    Workers of the World: International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflict 1, no. 7 (2015): 6–13.

  • Cover of Civil Society in Syria & Iran

    “The Ambiguous Role of Entrepreneurs in Iran”

    In Civil Society in Syria and Iran: Activism in Authoritarian Contexts, edited by Paul Aarts and Francesco Cavatorta, 93-118. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012.

  • “Iran, 1953-2000”

    Case Study in IB History of Europe and the Middle East Course Companion, Oxford University Press, 2012.