130 Women working alongside men

At the IISH research is conducted on the history of work in the Iranian oil industry. It covers various themes, such as the daily lives of workers, relations between the workers, the company, and the state, and the rise and development of industrial cities. This image depicts the laundry of an Anglo-Persian refinery around 1930. Putting women to work alongside men was highly innovative.

Women in the cleaning department

Women in the cleaning department
Southern Iran, ca 1930
Reproduction, from BP Archive, 20 x 28

Date: 
1930
Number: 
130