Surveys the relationships of workers and trade unions to the state in Egypt, bringing to light the often overlooked effect of workers' collective actions in shaping public policy.
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A closely researched study that forcefully demonstrates the relevance of urban wage workers and their trade union organizations in Egypt. Enriched with their own testimonies and insights, the first-hand experiences provide a refreshing and compelling realism often lacking in many social science discussions. -- Joel Beinin author of Was the Red Flying There?
Combining institutional and interpretive analysis, Labor and the State in Egypt explores and restores the role of labor in the political economy of post-Nasserist Egypt, while successfully and cogently tackling the internal variation and complexities of the labor movement. This work falls within the best traditions of comparative political economy, marrying deep empiricism with rich, theoretical and comparative perspectives. -- Diane Singerman author of Avenues of Participation: Family,
Combining institutional and interpretive analysis, Labor and the State in Egypt explores and restores the role of labor in the political economy of post-Nasserist Egypt, while successfully and cogently tackling the internal variation and complexities of the labor movement. This work falls within the best traditions of comparative political economy, marrying deep empiricism with rich, theoretical and comparative perspectives. -- Diane Singerman author of Avenues of Participation: Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo
Too much modern Arab history has been written as if the Ottoman Empire had virtually no standing in the unfolding events.Anscombe corrects and enriches the record by uncovering and interpreting the significant Ottoman input without, however, slighting the Wahhibi-Saudi and British-Western sources and interpretations.All are deftly balanced in this fine study. -- ---L. Carl Brown, editor of Imperial Legacy: The Ottoman
Combining institutional and interpretive analysis, Labor and the State in Egypt explores and restores the role of labor in the political economy of post-Nasserist Egypt, while successfully and cogently tackling the internal variation and complexities of the labor movement. This work falls within the best traditions of comparative political economy, marrying deep empiricism with rich, theoretical and comparative perspectives. -- Diane Singerman author of Avenues of Participation: Family,
Combining institutional and interpretive analysis, Labor and the State in Egypt explores and restores the role of labor in the political economy of post-Nasserist Egypt, while successfully and cogently tackling the internal variation and complexities of the labor movement. This work falls within the best traditions of comparative political economy, marrying deep empiricism with rich, theoretical and comparative perspectives. -- Diane Singerman author of Avenues of Participation: Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo
Too much modern Arab history has been written as if the Ottoman Empire had virtually no standing in the unfolding events.Anscombe corrects and enriches the record by uncovering and interpreting the significant Ottoman input without, however, slighting the Wahhibi-Saudi and British-Western sources and interpretations.All are deftly balanced in this fine study. -- ---L. Carl Brown, editor of Imperial Legacy: The Ottoman
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Combining institutional and interpretive analysis, Labor and the State in Egypt explores and restores the role of labor in the political economy of post-Nasserist Egypt, while successfully and cogently tackling the internal variation and complexities of the labor movement. This work falls within the best traditions of comparative political economy, marrying deep empiricism with rich, theoretical and comparative perspectives.
(Diane Singerman, author of Avenues of Participation: Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo )
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