Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction and historiographical essay
  • 2. The Ottoman coal coast
  • 3. Coal miners at work : jobs, recruitment, and wages
  • 4."Like slaves in colonial countries" : working conditions in the coalfield
  • 5. Ties that bind : village-mine relations
  • 6. Military duty and mine work : the blurred vocations of Ottoman soldier-workers
  • 7. Methane, rockfalls, and other disasters : accidents at the mines
  • 8. Victims and agents : confronting death and safety in the mines
  • 9. Wartime in the coalfield
  • Appendix on the reporting of accidents.