{"product_id":"workers-and-thieves-labor-movements-and-popular-uprisings-in-tunisia-and-egypt-9780804798044","title":"Workers and Thieves: Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt","description":"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!\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDespite this history, most observers have failed to acknowledge the importance of workers in the social ferment preceding the removal of Egyptian and Tunisian autocrats and in the political realignments after their demise. In \u003ci\u003eWorkers and Thieves\u003c\/i\u003e, Joel Beinin corrects this by surveying the efforts and impacts of the workers' movements in Egypt and Tunisia since the 1970s. He argues that the 2011 uprisings in these countries--and, importantly, their vastly different outcomes--are best understood within the context of these repeated mobilizations of workers and the unemployed over recent decades. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-23362\"\u003eJoel Beinin\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford Briefs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/11\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804798044\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804798044\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS001000\"\u003eAfrica | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS009000\"\u003eMiddle East | Egypt (see also Ancient | Egypt)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS037080\"\u003eModern | 21st Century\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoel Beinin\u003c\/b\u003e is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University. He has written or edited ten books, most recently \u003ci\u003eSocial Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa\u003c\/i\u003e, co-edited with Frédéric Vairel (Stanford, 2013) and \u003ci\u003eThe Struggle for Worker Rights in Egypt\u003c\/i\u003e (2010). His articles have been published in leading scholarly journals, as well as \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMiddle East Report\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSouth Atlantic Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLe Monde Diplomatique\u003c\/i\u003e, and others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford Briefs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44580959682797,"sku":"9780804798044","price":22.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_a6bc4c30-9988-4112-a59b-64258e90f6f3.jpg?v=1702081986","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/workers-and-thieves-labor-movements-and-popular-uprisings-in-tunisia-and-egypt-9780804798044","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}