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Workers and Thieves

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

Workers and Thieves

By Joel Beinin

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About the book

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 importanc...Show more

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9780804798044

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published year

2015

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1

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Workers and Thieves

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