The Impact of the Oil Industry on Changing of the Subaltern Social Life in Southern Iranian Oil Fields.

The present research tries to find an answer for the role of the oil industry in social changes in oilfield in southern Iran. Based on the descriptive-analytical method and the documents available in Iran and Britain archives, the findings of this research show that supplying the man power in Iran and Britain Oil Company led to immigration to this region. The inside and outside immigrations which provided differences in religion, race tribe, nationality and language of this region replaced in few years the local culture of Lor and Arab tribes by a mixed culture. Meanwhile, this was led to the growth of the housing and city-making, increasing the political knowledge of the workers and businessmen, resistance against overindulgences and colonization of the oil company, acquaintance with health care in west style and replacing the traditional medicine by west medicine, welcoming to new training methods, striving to learning the professional work, city-dweller flourishing in west style, changing the consumption patterns, the growth of oil industry in oilfield and many other changes.