Oil and class struggle / edited by Petter Nore and Terisa Turner.

Includes subject index and index of tables, figures, and maps.

1. Introduction / Petter Nore and Terisa Turner -- 2. Why does capital need energy? / Renfrew Christie -- 3. The energy crisis: the struggle for the redistribution of surplus profit from oil / Mohssen Massarrat -- 4. Oil and the state: a study of nationalization in the oil industry / Petter Nore -- 5. Oil exploration strategies: alternatives for the third world / Michael Tanzer -- 6. In defence of our members and the people of Trinago against global Texaco - exploiter of our labour and our natural resources / Oilfields Workers Trade Union -- 7. Libya: class and state in an oil economy / Ruth First -- 8. The internationalization of capital and capital accumulation in Iran / Patrick Clawson -- 9. Oil and the penetration of capitalism in Iraq / Joe Stork -- 10. Nigeria: imperialism, oil technology and the comprador state / Terisa Turner -- 11. Oil and the Venezuelan state / Wolfgang Hein -- 12. Class and oil in Alberta / Edward Shaffer -- 13. Iranian oilworkers in the 1978-79 revolution / Terisa Turner -- 14. How we organized strike that paralyzed Shah's regime / Firsthand account by Iranian oil worker -- Index.

"The authors' radical perspective has enabled them to go beyond what has previously been written on oil to ask new questions and propound important new theories. This new perspective, together with the empirical information collected, goes to the heart of both likely trends in oil prices in future, and the manifold impact of huge oil revenues on Third World countries. Essential reading for all those concerned with energy, both within the oil industry and outside, as well as for those interested generally in Third World development." -- From the back cover.