Document Type : Research Article:Social history and research on parliament in Iran (Guest editor: Dr. Morteza Nouraei)

Authors

• Hossein Ahmadzadeh Nodijeh ¹
• Ghobad Mansourbakht ²

¹ Curator of the Treasury of National Jewels (CBI); Ph.D. in history at Beheshti university.

² Associated professor, History, Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

With the raise of Pahlavi dynasty in 1925 and the adoption of the policy of economic modernization and the construction of factories and machine industries; the first group of industrial workers appeared in Iran. Most of the employees of the new factories were artisans, farmers, nomads and unemployed people who migrated from villages and small towns to industrial centers. Employment opportunities had been provided for these workers, but no plan had been considered for their accommodation; As a result, they faced a big challenge in the name of housing. Inevitably, with the workers living in the peripheral areas of the cities, slums were formed for the first time on the outskirts of large and oil-rich cities. These houses where the workers lived often lacked the necessary facilities for normal life. The emigration of workers to big cities, the imbalance between housing supply and demand, the lack of necessary infrastructures, the government's mismanagement and lack of planning in housing and providing for the needs of the allies caused the government face with a challenge that failed to solve it. The research findings, which is based on the combined causal-rational method and written mainly on the basis of contemporary journals, show that after the fall of Reza Shah and the emergence of a relatively open political atmosphere, the widespread activity of left-wing and the transformation of workers' housing demands into public demands led to the first mandatory step to enactment of housing construction by the National Council in 1948

Keywords

• Workers"
• Housing"
• Slums"
• Left"
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• Law"

Main Subjects

• Social history and research on parliament in Iran