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Stella Morgana is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Area Studies, University of Leiden, The Netherlands. Her research explores the transformation of Islamic revolutionary discourse conceptualization in Iran. her publications include: “The Islamic Republican Party of Iran in the Factory. Control over workers’ discourse in posters (1979-1987),” IRAN – Journal of the British Institute for Persian Studies, 2018; and “Talking to Workers: From Khomeini to Ahmadinejad, how the Islamic Republic’s Discourse on Labor Changed through May Day Speeches (1979‒2009),” Iranian Studies, 52:1-2 (2019),133-158, DOI: 10.1080/00210862.2019.1599713
Precarious Workers and Neoliberal Narratives in Post-revolutionary Iran: Top-down Strategies and Bottom-up Responses
How did the Islamic Republic of Iran’s dominant narratives over labor evolve since the 1979 revolution? What paved the way to neoliberal discourses, particularly since the 1990s? Which processes and legal measures made workers precarious? What role did workers play, and along which lines did they develop their trajectories of resistance? These questions are at the core of this article, which explores the above-mentioned issues from two different vantage points: a top-down approach, which looks at official narratives, as well as the legal strategies that contribute to the precarization of workers; and a bottom-up perspective, which seeks to understand workers’ practices of resistance and counter-hegemonic actions.
