Labor Against the Regime (eBook)

Workers' Mobilization in Egypt, 2004-2011

Nadine Abdalla (Autor)

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2025
297 Seiten
Syracuse University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8156-5731-6 (ISBN)

Infos

How do worker movements emerge and evolve under authoritarian regimes? What enables labor activists to overcome constraints and win concessions, and what leads to demobilization? Nadine Abdalla provides an inside look at two of Egypt’s most significant worker protest movements in the years preceding the 2011 Arab uprisings.

Through a fine-grained analysis of the labor movement at the Misr Spinning and Weaving Company in Al-Mahalla Al-Kubra and the State Employees Movement of the Real Estate Tax Collectors, Labor Against the Regime reveals the pivotal role played by activist leaders in shaping a movement’s trajectory. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, interviews, and primary sources, Abdalla traces how these movements overcame daunting odds to first take shape, achieve socio-economic demands, and ultimately challenge the Mubarak regime’s corporatist control over labor relations. The book explores how activist leaders’ personal backgrounds, careers, and embeddedness within movements conditioned their choices—ultimately steering protests down different pathways of contestation and institutionalization. As one of the first book-length studies to comparatively analyze Egypt’s labor activism before and after the Arab Spring, Labor Against the Regime provides vital insights into the changing relationship between workers, social movements, and the pre-uprising political order.

Autor

Nadine Abdalla is assistant professor of sociology at the American University in Cairo.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.2.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
• Verlagsort: Syracuse
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Geld / Bank / Börse
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: activism • Authoritarian regime • authoritarian regimes • Collective identity • Company Management • Contentious Interactions • contentious politics • Corruption • Economic Demands • economic hardships • Economic Liberalization • egyptian history • Egyptian Trade Union Federation (ETUF) • financial problems • Frame Analysis • Government Policies • Grassroots activism • Independent union • labor activism • Labor Movement • labor protests • labor rights • Mahalla Labor Movement • Media Liberalization • Middle East studies • minimum wage • Mobilizing Structures • Movement Leaders • Mubarak • Mubarak regime • neoliberal policies • political demands • political liberalization • Political Opportunity Structure (POS) • Political Process Model (PPM) • Privatization • Public sector • Real Estate Tax Collectors • Regime Players • Repression • security apparatus • Social Justice • social mobilizations • social movement theory • Social Networks • Socioeconomic Inequality • Sociology • Solidarity Networks • State Corporatism • State repression • Strategic Choices • Strategic Interaction Paradigm (SIP) • Strike Coordinating Committee (SCC) • Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) • Trade Union Elections • Wage Redistribution
• ISBN-10: 0-8156-5731-5 / 0815657315
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-5731-6 / 9780815657316