Labor
and their experiences in the working life in the Ottoman Empire. Changing
skills and work experiences from artisanal to industrial production (patterns of labor utilization); artisans and
guilds; effects of social, economic and political developments on the Ottoman
labor and on the working life; working conditions; ethnic and gender division
in the working life; labor protests (walk-out, machine breaking, strikes);
workers’ organizations (from charity to unions and syndicates); laws concerning
labor and working life; state and employers’ policies.