title: Foreign worker dependence in the Gulf, and the international oil companies: 1910-50.
abstract: "This article demonstrates that foreign worker dependence in the [Persian] Gulf dates from the establishment of the oil industry in the early twentieth century.  The composition of labor inflows [was] mainly determined by political and strategic, rather than commercial, concerns.  Contrasting patterns of labor force composition evolved between those areas under British control, which imported labor from the Indian sub-continent, and the independent Saudi Arabia where labor was drawn from more diverse sources including the Italian settlers in Eritrea."
authors.forename: I J
authors.initials: IJ
authors.lastname: Seccombe
authors.forename: R I
authors.initials: RI
authors.lastname: Lawless
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D001211:Asia, Western; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D006280:Health Workforce; D007221:Industry; D011057:Politics; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D014171:Transients and Migrants
keywords: Asia; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Economic Development; Economic Factors; Historical Survey; Human Resources; Industrialization; International Migration; Labor Force; Manpower Needs; Migrants; Migration; Political Factors; Population; Population Dynamics; Western Asia