Labor Against the Regime
Nadine Abdalla
Sachbuch / Geld, Bank, Börse
Beschreibung
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.
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Contentious Interactions, Contentious Politics, Trade Union Elections, social justice, Minimum Wage, Socioeconomic Inequality, Economic Demands, Repression, Frame Analysis, Political Demands, Government Policies, Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), grassroots activism, Solidarity Networks, Strike Coordinating Committee (SCC), Financial Problems, Independent Union, Privatization, Wage Redistribution, labor movement, Political Process Model (PPM), Authoritarian Regimes, Economic Liberalization, Strategic Choices, Political Liberalization, Mobilizing Structures, Mubarak, sociology, activism, Political Opportunity Structure (POS), Company Management, Security Apparatus, Public Sector, Real Estate Tax Collectors, Economic Hardships, Social Mobilizations, Labor Rights, Mahalla Labor Movement, Egyptian history, Labor Protests, Mubarak Regime, Middle East studies, State Corporatism, Strategic Interaction Paradigm (SIP), Media Liberalization, authoritarian regime, Collective Identity, Corruption, Movement Leaders, labor activism, Neoliberal Policies, Egyptian Trade Union Federation (ETUF), Social Movement Theory, state repression, Regime Players, Social Networks