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Contesting Authoritarianism - Labor Challenges to the State in Egypt (Hardcover)
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Contesting Authoritarianism - Labor Challenges to the State in Egypt (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Middle East Studies
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Successive authoritarian regimes have maintained tight control over
organized labor in Egypt since the 1950s. And yet in 2009, a group
of civil servants decided to exit the state-controlled Egyptian
Trade Union Federation (ETUF), thereby setting a precedent for
other groups and threatening the ETUF's monopoly. Dina Bishara
examines this relationship between labour organizations and the
state to shed light on how political change occurs within an
authoritarian government, and to show how ordinary Egyptians
perceive the government's rule. In particular, Bishara highlights
the agency of dissident unionists in challenging the state even
when trade union leaders remain loyal. She reveals that militant
sectors are more vulnerable to greater scrutiny and repression and
that financial benefits tied to membership in state-backed unions
can provide significant disincentives against the exit option.
Moving beyond conventional accounts of top-down control, this book
explores when and how institutions designed for political control
become contested from below.
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