Machineries Of Oil: An Infrastructural History Of BP In Iran

ISBN: 9780262037044 出版年：2018 页码：359 Shafiee, Katayoun The MIT Press

In the early twentieth century, international oil corporations emerged as a new kind of political actor. The development of the world oil industry, argues katayoun shafiee, was one of the era's largest political projects of techno-economic development. In this book, shafiee maps the machinery of oil operations in the anglo-iranian oil industry between 1901 and 1954, tracking the organizational work involved in moving oil through a variety of technical, legal, scientific, and administrative networks. She shows that, in a series of disagreements, the british-controlled anglo-iranian oil company (AIOC, which later became BP) relied on various forms of information management to transform political disputes into techno-economic calculation, guaranteeing the company complete control over profits, labor, and production regimes.