Today, workers in the Arabian Peninsula are unable to form unions and to go on strike to change their working conditions. In the oil industry, most laborers come from South Asia and the Philippines.
Andrea Wright
Andrea Wright received her PhD from the Joint Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan, and she is currently the Class of 1952 Distinguished Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies at William & Mary. She is the author of Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil (Stanford University Press, 2021) and Unruly Labor: A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea (Stanford University Press, 2024).