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1 Online-Ressource (xv, 189 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781108147873
Serie:
Cambridge Middle East studies
Inhalt:
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
Inhalt:
The prelude to exit: the rupturing of state-labor relations under Mubarak -- The weakest link? civil servants as the pioneers of independent unionism in Egypt -- The politics of ignoring: protest dynamics in late Mubarak Egypt -- Framing exit: the role of leadership in the formation of the independent Real Estate Tax Authority union -- The politics of recognition and the micro-dynamics of authoritarian rule -- The 2011 uprising and beyond: the struggle for a new interest regime in post-Mubarak Egypt -- Conclusion: authoritarianism and corporatism in Egypt and beyond
Anmerkung:
Revision of author's dissertation (doctoral)...George Washington University, 2013, titled Authoritarian institutions as objects of contestation : challenges to state corporatism in Egypt
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Includes bibliographical references
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ISBN 9781107193574
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bishara, Dina Contesting authoritarianism Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018 ISBN 9781316644720
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ISBN 9781107193574
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ISBN 1316644723
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ISBN 1107193575
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Ethnologie
DOI:
10.1017/9781108147873
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