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wholeheartedly willing to supply information that could be subject to manipulation and interpretation” (p. 10). He therefore draws on western and Arab studies from the 1950s about the wider region, oil company publications, his own correspondence with various experts, and unpublished theses. Quarto. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and front cover. Copy of typescript printed on rectos only. With statistical tables and charts. Dent across top of boards, slight stain to spine. A very good copy, square and fresh. £1,750 [159323]
locations: Exeter only in the UK, Library of Congress in the US, UAE University and NYU Abu Dhabi in the Middle East. The author, the son of a successful Abu Dhabi pearl merchant, became the UAE’s first Minister of Petroleum and Industry under the presidency of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and was six times president of OPEC. This, his first book, went to a second edition in 1973, which is similarly uncommon. Octavo. Original printed wrappers, orange front cover with vignettes of palm trees and oil tanker & derrick. Front cover variably faded, top corner of which and first ten leaves creased, some foxing and minor abrasions to spine but remaining a very good copy. £1,500 [159317] 8 AL-QAZZAZ, Ayad Sayid. Manpower in the Oil Industry in Traditional Society. Berkeley: University of California, 1966 The challenges of modernizing oil production in a turbulent Iraq In this master’s thesis Al-Qazzaz examines labour characteristics, recruitment, training, turnover, pay and conditions, management, and the trade union movement; an appendix looks at the evolution of Iraq’s oil industry. It is genuinely rare: an online institutional search shows one location only, and that associated with the author: University of California at Berkeley. Al-Qazzaz (b. Baghdad 1941) graduated from Baghdad University in 1962, and continued his studies at Berkeley, where he attained his MA in 1966 and PhD in 1970. With a specialism in the Middle East, he has been Professor in Sociology at California State University, Sacramento, since 1969. Here, he notes that most studies of Iraq’s oil industry have focused on the political, economic and global angles. While the industry is modern, the society it is operating in is not, and he makes the first serious attempt to address this. He was hampered in his researches by “the reserved, cool cooperation of both the Iraqi Government and the Oil Companies, neither one of them being
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