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63 Int'l Lab. Rev. 178 (1951)
An Outline of the Social and Economic Structure of Iran: II

handle is hein.journals/intlr63 and id is 192 raw text is: An Outline of the Social and Economic Structure of Iran: II' by M. A. DJAMALZADEH International Labour Office THE SITUATION OF THE WORKERS The Iranian worker is generally skilful and intelligent, and his alert understanding amply compensates for the care- lessness that he has sometimes been observed to display. He was described in the following terms by the League of Nations Commission which examined the Iranian opium problem in 1926 : The Commission was impressed with the manual dexterity, the adaptability, and possibly, one might say, the versatility of the Persian worker. Even what might be called the low-caste Persian peasant did not show any inferiority of physiognomy. 2 Although vocational training facilities are as yet insufficient, the workers of Iran are rising creditably to the difficult tasks set by the newly created industries, and in many cases they have shown that they can, in a short space of time, take the place of the foreign technicians whom Iranian industrialists usually engage to set their undertakings going. The social and economic development of the country during close on thirty years has undoubtedly had a favourable effect on the situation of the working classes. Contact with ' For the first part of this article, see International Labour tBeview, Vol. LXIII, No. 1, January 1951, pp. 24-39. 2LEAGUE OF NATIONS : Commission of Enquiry into the Production of Opium in Persia. Report to the Council, C.580.M.219.1926.XI (Geneva, 1926).