Notes on contributors * Acknowledgements * Note on transliteration * Introduction -- Touraj Atabaki * Time, Labour-Discipline and Modernisation in Turkey and Iran -- Touraj Atabaki * Workers and the State During the late Ottoman -- Donald Quataert * Disgruntled Guests: Iranian Subaltern on the Margins of the Tsarist Empire--Touraj Atabaki * The Modernization of the Empire and the Community 'privileges': Greek-Orthodox Responses to the Young Turk Policies -- Vangelis Kechriotis * Modernity, Change and Dictatorship in Iran: The New Order and its Opponents, 1927-1929 -- Stephanie Cronin * From Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey -- Erik-Jan Zürcher * With or Without Workers in Reza Shah's Iran: Abadan, May 1929 -- Kaveh Bayat * Sufi Reactions against the Reforms after Turkey's National Struggle: How a Nightingale turned Into a Crow -- Hülya Küçük * The Menemen Incident: The Creation and Contestation of a Myth (1930-1931) -- Umut Azak * Authority and Agency: Re-visiting Women's Activism During Reza Shah's Period -- Afsaneh Najmabadi * Polygamy Before and After the Introduction of the Swiss Civil Code in Turkey -- Nicole van Os * * Notes on contributors * Acknowledgements * Note on transliteration * Introduction -- Touraj Atabaki * Time, Labour-Discipline and Modernisation in Turkey and Iran -- Touraj Atabaki * Workers and the State During the late Ottoman -- Donald Quataert * Disgruntled Guests: Iranian Subaltern on the Margins of the Tsarist Empire--Touraj Atabaki * The Modernization of the Empire and the Community 'privileges': Greek-Orthodox Responses to the Young Turk Policies -- Vangelis Kechriotis * Modernity, Change and Dictatorship in Iran: The New Order and its Opponents, 1927-1929 -- Stephanie Cronin * From Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey -- Erik-Jan Zürcher * With or Without Workers in Reza Shah's Iran: Abadan, May 1929 -- Kaveh Bayat * Sufi Reactions against the Reforms after Turkey's National Struggle: How a Nightingale turned Into a Crow -- Hülya Küçük * The Menemen Incident: The Creation and Contestation of a Myth (1930-1931) -- Umut Azak * Authority and Agency: Re-visiting Women's Activism During Reza Shah's Period -- Afsaneh Najmabadi * Polygamy Before and After the Introduction of the Swiss Civil Code in Turkey -- Nicole van Os *.