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A main characteristic of the working class has been its peasant
origins. The rapid growth of the working class in the 1960s and
1970s was the result of migration from villages to cities. There
also has been some migration from small towns to larger cities and
from economically depressed areas, such as Baluchestan and
Kordestan, to more economically vital regions. The result of these
population transfers has been an inability of urban services to
keep pace with the population growth and the consequent spread of
slum areas. In 1987 south Tehran was still Iran's most extensive
urban slum, but other large cities also had notable slum sections.
It was in these areas that marginally employed and unskilled
workers were concentrated. Immediately after the Revolution, the
government announced its intention of making living and working
conditions in rural areas more attractive as a means of stemming
rural- to-urban migration. Although the slowdown in the economy
since the Revolution may have contributed to a generally reduced
rate of urban growth, there was no evidence that migration from the
villages had ceased. The preliminary results from the 1986 census
indicated that such cities as Mashhad and Shiraz have grown at even
faster rates than before the Revolution.
Data as of December 1987
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