Touraj Atabaki 
Toiling for Oil [PDF ebook] 
A Social History of Petroleum in Iran

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Focusing on the ports, dockyards and garrison towns of Kent, this study examines the social and economic factors that could cause a woman to turn to prostitution, and how such women were policed. …

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