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Workers on the Nile

Paperback • 1998 • English

Workers on the Nile: nationalism, communism, Islam and the Egyptian working class, 1882-1954

By Joel Beinin

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About the book

In this reissue of a book that was hailed as groundbreaking almost as soon as it was published, the authors examine the role of trade unionism and the working class in the development of Egyptian nationalism during the first half of the twentieth century. Beinin and Lockman examine "the dialectic of class and nation [and] the formation of a new class of wage workers as Egypt experienced a particular kind of capitalist development ... and these workers' adoption of various forms of consciousness,...Show more

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ISBN

9789774244827

Publisher

the American University in Cairo Press

Published year

1998

Language

English

Original title

Workers on the Nile

Format

Paperback

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