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Workers and Thieves: Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt
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by Joel Beinin


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Since the 1990s, the Middle East has experienced an upsurge of wildcat strikes, sit-ins, and workers' demonstrations. Well before people gathered in Tahrir Square to demand the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, workers had formed one of the largest oppositional movements to authoritarian rule in Egypt. In Tunisia, years prior to the 2011 Arab uprisings, the unemployed chanted in protest, "A job is a right, you pack of thieves!"

Despite this history, most observers have failed to acknowledge the importance of workers in the social ferment preceding the removal of Egyptian and Tunisian autocrats and in the political realignments after their demise. In Workers and Thieves, Joel Beinin corrects this by surveying the efforts and impacts of the workers' movements in Egypt and Tunisia since the 1970s. He argues that the 2011 uprisings in these countries--and, importantly, their vastly different outcomes--are best understood within the context of these repeated mobilizations of workers and the unemployed over recent decades.

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  • Title Workers and Thieves: Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt
  • Author Joel Beinin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Stanford Briefs
  • Date 2015-11-11
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780804798044 / 0804798044
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5 x 0.6 in (20.07 x 12.70 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Cultural Region: African
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
  • Library of Congress subjects Tunisia - History - Demonstrations, 2010-, Egypt - History - Protests, 2011-
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015029712
  • Dewey Decimal Code 961.105

About the author

Joel Beinin is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University. He has written or edited ten books, most recently Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa, co-edited with Frdric Vairel (Stanford, 2013) and The Struggle for Worker Rights in Egypt (2010). His articles have been published in leading scholarly journals, as well as The Nation, Middle East Report, The Los Angeles Review of Books, South Atlantic Quarterly, Le Monde Diplomatique, and others.
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