Continuity and Change: The Structure of Power in Iran

Islam and labor law: Some precepts and examples

“…Some students of contemporary Iran have argued that not only had the "Third Way" of the Islamic economy disintegrated into the same old two-way, capital/labor class struggle, but also that the predominant power for the foreseeable future had shifted to capital, that in this case Islamism did not end class exploitation but came to legitimize it (J.M. Moore 1992;Parvin 1993;Vakili-Zad 1992). In the context of global pressures for economic liberalization in the 1990s, which even Iran could not escape, the laissez-faire policy advocates appeared to gain traction (Nomani and Rahnema 1994: 169-72, 182-84).…”