Trade Unions and Arab Revolutions: Challenging the Regime in Egypt

ISBN-13: 9780367786298 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 246 str.

Heba F. El-Shazli

Opis

This book examines the combative role of Egyptian independent workers’ formal and informal organizations as a contentious social movement to challenge the regime. It will examine the evolving role of workers as socio-economic actors and then as political actors in very political transitions.

Recenzje

"The Arab Spring was a great and lost opportunity to bring democracy and secular reform to the Arab world. Heba F. El-Shazli shows how workers and their organizations were central to the movement’s strength; and how defeat was a blow to campaigns to bring economic as well as political justice to working people in Egypt and throughout the world." –Gerald Friedman, University of Massachusetts, USA

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction – An Elusive Victory: how Egyptian workers challenged the regime, and the rise of the protest movement

Part I – A brief overview of Egyptian workers’ revolts and history

Chapter 1. The Historic Rise of Organized Labor and its role in protest democratic movements globally; and Egyptian Workers’ Contentious Collective Action

Chapter 2. An Overview of The Egyptian Labor Movement’s History (Pre- and Post-1952) and the Shaping of the Current Labor Movement: the nature of political conflict, contenting elite factions and the institutional basis of political power

Part II – The Two Case Studies; Other Workers’ Protests, and Socio-Economic and Cultural Framing

Chapter 3. First Case Study – The Municipal Real Estate Tax Collectors

Chapter 4. Second Case Study - The Garment & Textile workers at the Misr Company for Spinning and Weaving in El-Mahalla al-Kubra

Chapter 5. Other Workers’ Protests and how their repertoire mirrored the protests of larger unions and worker groups

Chapter 6. The Cultural Framing: Socio-economic, political and cultural changes in Egypt leading up to the January 2011 Uprising

Part III – Conclusion

Chapter 7. The Hope for a Democratic Transition: Post January 2011 Uprising and the Role of the Independent Labor Movement Leading to the May 2012 Elections and Beyond

Chapter 8. Concluding remarks and Epilogue: Political, Economic and Social Developments from 2012 to 2018

Appendix A: The Municipal Real Estate Tax Collectors Case Study Supporting Letters and Documents

Appendix B: Examples of Other Significant Protests by Egyptian Workers

Author Biography

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Heba F. El-Shazli is an Assistant Professor at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on International Relations Theory; Politics, Government and Society of the Middle East; Israeli-Palestinian Politics; and Islam and Politics. She is an affiliate faculty to the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies (AVACGIS) at George Mason University. She is also an Adjunct Faculty at Georgetown University’s Master’s Degree Program at the Center for Democracy and Civil Society.