Contesting Authoritarianism

ISBN-13: 9781316644720 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 204 str.

Dina Bishara

Opis

Investigates the conditions which lead workers to leave state-controlled unions and establish independent organizations under authoritarian rule in Egypt.

Spis treści

List of illustrative material; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The prelude to exit: the rupturing of state-labor relations under Mubarak; 2. The weakest link? Civil servants as the pioneers of independent unionism in Egypt; 3. The politics of ignoring: protest dynamics in late Mubarak Egypt; 4. Framing exit: the role of leadership in the formation of the independent Real Estate Tax Authority Union; 5. The politics of recognition and the micro-dynamics of authoritarian rule; 6. The 2011 uprising and beyond: the struggle for a new interest regime in post-Mubarak Egypt; Conclusion: authoritarianism and corporatism in Egypt and beyond; Bibliography; Appendix; Endnotes; Index.