War, Work, and Want: How the OPEC Oil Crisis Caused Mass Migration and Revolutio

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An expansive history of how an economic shock a half century ago created a world that is addicted to mass migration.The oil shock of 1973 changed everything. It brought the golden age of American and European economic growth to an end; it destabilized Middle Eastern politics; and it set in train processes that led to over one hundred million unexpected--and unwanted--immigrants. In War, Work, andWant, Randall Hansen asks why, against all expectations, global migration tripled after 1970. The answer, he argues, lies in how the OPEC Oil crisis transformed the global economy, Middle Eastern geopolitics and, as aconsequence, international migration. The quadrupling of oil prices and attendant inflation destroyed economic growth in the West while flooding the Middle East with oil money. American and European consumers, their wealth drained, rebuilt their standard of living on the back of cheap labor--and cheap migrants. The Middle East enjoyed the benefits of a historic wealth transfer, but oil became a poisoned chalice leading to political instability, revolution, and war, all of which resulted in tensof millions of refugees. The economic, and migratory, consequences of the OPEC oil crisis transformed the contours of domestic politics around the world. They fueled the growth of nationalist-populistparties that built their brands on blaming immigrants for collapsing standards of living, willfully ignoring the fact that mass immigration was the effect, not the cause, of that collapse. In showing how war (the main driver of refugee flows), work (labor migrants), and want (the desire for ever cheaper products made by migrants) led to the massive upsurge in global migration after 1973, this book will reshape our understanding of the past half-century of global history.

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Randall Hansen is Canada Research Chair in Global Migration at the University of Toronto. He works on immigration and citizenship, demography and population policy and the effects of war on civilians. He is the author or Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany and Japan (2020, first edition on Germany 2009), Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance after Operation Valkyrie (Oxford, 2014), Sterilized by the State: Eugenics, Race andthe Population Scare in 20th Century North America (with Desmond King, 2014), and Citizenship and Immigration in Post-War Britain (Oxford, 2000).

Table of Contents

PrefaceChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Prussians and Jews: The Six-Day War and Its AftermathChapter 3: The Great Revaluation: OPECChapter 4: Black Gold: Wealth and Immigration in the Middle EastChapter 5: Oil in Oil-Poor States: EgyptChapter 6: Oil's Curses: Iran and IraqChapter 7: Drunk on Oil and Gas: The Soviet Invasion of AfghanistanChapter 8: No Blood for Oil: Iraq, 1990Chapter 9: The Taliban, 9/11, and the Second Iraq WarChapter 10: The Arab Nightmare: Lebanon, Libya, Syria, and Global Displacement in the 2010sChapter 11: ISIL and the European Refugee CrisisChapter 12: Expensive Oil, Cheap GoodsChapter 13: The Assault on Working-Class WagesChapter 14: Where We ShopChapter 15: What We Eat I: The Rise and Fall of Meatpacking UnionsChapter 16: What We Eat II: Immigration and the Meatpacking IndustryChapter 17: What We Eat III: Fish, Fruit, and VegetablesChapter 18: Where We Live I: Migrants in the US Construction BusinessChapter 19: Where We Live II: Building EuropeChapter 20: Where We Live III: AsiaChapter 21: How We Live: Keeping our Houses, Raising our ChildrenChapter 22: What We WearConclusion: Back to the Future: Inflation, the Global Economy, and Migration in the 2020sNotesIndex

Review

Randall Hansen has written a panoramic and passionate book that casts global political and economic history after 1973 in a new light. Alongside a deft and richly informed argument about the destabilizing consequences of wars and shifts in government policies as well as recurrent hostility toward immigrant newcomers, he never loses sight of the impact on successive generations who labored for low wages in the globalized economy. His book has the hallmarks of a classic. * Peter Gatrell, University Of Manchester, And Author Of The Unsettling Of Europe: How Migration Reshaped A Continent *The depth of my disagreement with Hansen's conclusions about immigration is matched only by my admiration for his intellectual curiosity and the rigor of his historical scholarship. This book is a page turner. * David Goodhart, Author Of Head Hand Heart: The Struggle For Dignity And Status In The 21st Century *In this magnificent book, Randall Hansen shows how one event, the 1973 oil crisis, has changed the world. In the West, it sent capitalism into a low-wage spiral that made life cheaper for the middle classes, but on the backs of exploited migrant workers at home and abroad. In the Middle East, the sudden oil riches produced war, instability, and refugees far beyond the region, with no end in sight. That history is events explained by other events, has never been more powerfully demonstrated. * Christian Joppke, University Of Bern, And Author Of Neoliberal Nationalism: Immigration And The Rise Of The Populist Right *the book makes a major and original contribution across different academic and political debates. * Sara Bernard, H-Diplo *

Details ISBN0197657699 Author Randall Hansen Publisher Oxford University Press Inc ISBN-10 0197657699 ISBN-13 9780197657690 Format Hardcover Year 2023 Publication Date 2023-09-26 UK Release Date 2023-09-26 Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2023-09-26 US Release Date 2023-09-26 Subtitle How the OPEC Oil Crisis Caused Mass Migration and Revolution Illustrations 13 b/w line drawings; 11 b/w photographs; 5 tables DEWEY 304.856 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2023-12-18 Pages 432 We've got this

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