Introduction, Touraj Atabaki, Elisabetta Bini, Kaveh Ehsani -- THE POLITICAL LIFE OF OIL -- Invisible Work: Why is the Role of Labor in Oil Missing from the Literature?; Kaveh Ehsani -- The Zero-Sum Game of Early Oil Extraction Relations in Colombia: Workers, Tropical Oil, and the Police State, 1918-1938; Stefano Tijerina -- Tapline, Welfare Industrialism, and Mass Mobilization in Lebanon, 1950-1964; Zachary Cuyler -- Power of the Possible: Oil Workers and Dual Power in the Iranian Revolution, 1978-1982; Peyman Jafari -- Norwegian Oil Workers: From Rebels to Partners in a Tripartite System; Helge Ryggvik -- The Role of Labor in Transforming Nigerian Oil Politics; Andrew Lawrence -- The Political Life of Oil and Labour under the Citizens’ Revolution in Ecuador; Gabriela Valdivia -- THE PRODUCTIVE LIFE OF OIL -- Far from Home, but at Home: Indian Migrant Workers in the Iranian Oil Industry; Touraj Atabaki -- Wildcat: Outsourcing, Expertise , and Oil in Postwar Houston; Betsy A. Beasley -- Pricing Labor in State-led Privatization: a Case Study of the Chinese Oil Industry; Kun-Chin Lin -- Cat Crackers and Picket Lines: Organized Labour in US Labour Gulf Coast Refineries; Tyler Priest -- THE SOCIAL AND URBAN LIFE OF OIL -- Building an Oil Empire: Labor and Gender Relations in American Company Towns in Libya, 1950s-1970s; Elisabetta Bini -- Heroic “Black Gold”? Working for Oil and Gas in Western Siberia during the 1960s and 1970s; Dunja Krempin -- The Tengiz Oil Enclave: Labor, Business, and the State; Saulesh Yessenova -- Doubly Invisible: Women’s Labour in the US Gulf of Mexico Offshore Oil and Gas Industry; Diane Austin.