Investigating the reasons for the inefficiency of the market and guilds in the developments of the first Pahlavi period (1320)

Subject Areas : Journal of History (Tarikh)

lila sarveyas ¹ (PhD Student, Department of History, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)
sina froozesh ² (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran (Corresponding Author))
reaz Shabanisamghabadi ³ (Professor, Department of History, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)
Gholamhossein Zargarinejad ⁴ (Professor, Department of History, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2020-08-08 Accepted : 2020-08-26 Published : 2020-08-22

Keywords: Iran, constitutional revolution, Qajar and Pahlavi, Bazaar and Guilds,

Abstract :

The present study seeks to investigate the reasons for the inefficiency of the market and guilds in the developments of the first Pahlavi period (1320). From this perspective, after expanding the conceptual space the subject, it will examine role and function guilds. According to the thematic documents presented in this research, the research method is descriptive-analytical data collection method in this research is a library. The findings of the research indicate that the markets and guilds, due to foreign influence, the expansion and publication of newspapers, their role and function has gone beyond the purely economic and commercial spheres has taken on a political and social aspect.This issue has fundamentally changed the structure and nature of guilds and bazaars and has taken them out of the status of a class and turned it into a class for itself. This issue has affected the bazaars and guilds on developments formation of the tobacco movement, the Chamber of Commerce, the Constitutional Revolution, the National Assembly and the formation of the National Bank so that the bazaars have a positive impact on the course of events and developments up to this time. But after the constitution until 1320, due the lack of unity within the group, the weakness of trade union and class consciousness and the coming to power of Reza Shah and the formation of government and class imbalance and tendency to land ownership, bazaars and guilds became inefficient and could not cope with political developments. Have positive social and economic effects.