Bread, Freedom, Social Justice : Workers and the Egyptian Revolution.

Front Cover -- About the Authors -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction: From the Republic of Tahrir to the Republic of Fear? Theorising Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Egypt 2011-14 -- States and capitals in the Middle East:some observations -- Political and social revolutions: preliminary notes -- Analysing Islamism -- Reformism and the workers' movement -- Towards 'permanent revolution'? -- Chapter 1: From Nasserism to Neoliberalism: A New Amalgam of State and Private Capital -- The rise of Nasserism -- Infitah and the long crisis of the Nasserist state -- Structural adjustment: the state withdraws from the Nasserist social contract -- The reduction of public-sector employment -- A new amalgam of state and private capital -- Chapter 2: The Changing Structure of the Egyptian Working Class in the Neoliberal ERA -- 'Where are the workers?' -- Table 2.1 Waged employees and non-waged labour in the total labour force, 1980-2007 -- Figure 2.1 Total employment by status in employment -- Restructuring the Egyptian working class: global trends -- Table 2.2 The growing private sector, 1980-2004 -- Table 2.3 Economic sectors: value added -- Table 2.4 Non-agricultural paid employment as a proportion of total employment, 1980-2007 -- Table 2.5 Economically active population relative to total population -- Table 2.6 Women as a proportion of the total employed workforce, selected sectors -- Table 2.7 Women's weekly wages in the lowest-paying sectors, 2007 -- Manufacturing: decline, renewal, relocation -- Table 2.8 Employment in manufacturing and value added, 1983-2007 -- Decomposition of the Nasserist model of manufacturing -- Spatial restructuring: the growth of the new industrial cities -- Transport and communications.

Table 2.9 Increase in goods exports and imports, 1980-2010 -- Table 2.10 Suez Canal: brief yearly statistics, 2000-2013 -- Table 2.11 Egypt: number of inbound tourism arrivals and receipts -- Table 2.12 State-employed transport and communications workers -- The expansion and proletarianisation of the white-collar public sector: the example of education workers -- Table 2.13 Economic sectors employing the largest proportion of employees -- Figure 2.2 Weekly wages in selected economic sectors, 1999-2007 -- Figure 2.3 Weekly wages in selected economic sectors, 1985-2007 -- Precarious workers, informal economy? -- Conclusion: unevenness and combination -- Chapter 3: Strikes, Protests and the Development of a Revolutionary Crisis -- The Misr Spinning strike of December 2006: a turning point -- A new culture of protest -- The transformation of workers' collective action -- Table 3.1 Episodes and forms of workers' collective action, 1998-2010 -- Figure 3.1 Episodes of workers' collective action, 1998-2010 -- Figure 3.2 Geographical distribution of strikes and workers' protests, February 2007 -- Rediscovery of the strike -- 'These are liberated territories' -- Mahalla: towards the 2008 uprising -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Organisation in the Workplace Before the Revolution: the Nasserist Model in Crisis -- The Egyptian Trade Union Federation: from hegemony to paralysis -- The origins and form of the ETUF -- The ruling party's machine -- The ETUF as gatekeeper to the electoral arena -- The ETUF's response to neoliberalism -- Workplace union committees: an exception? -- The state of the federation during Mubarak's last years -- Figure 4.1 ETUF membership decline in a context of workforce growth, 2003-2011 -- The ETUF's waning influence within the state -- Political opposition, economic accommodation and the rise of an alternative from below -- Conclusion.

Chapter 5: From Strike Committee to Independent Union -- The property tax collectors' strike -- From strike committee to independent union -- Table 5.1 Provincial committees of the independent union of workers in the property tax authority, December 2008 -- The development of other independent union networks -- The contradictions of trade unionism -- Beyond the workplace: opportunities and problems -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: The Revolution's Social Soul: Workers and the January Revolution -- Dynamics of the uprising: workers and the Republic of Tahrir -- The social and the political during 'the 18 Days' -- The Egyptian revolution between Mubarak and Morsi -- Strikes undermine the military-Islamist consensus -- Table 6.1 The growing wave of collective action in 2011 -- Table 6.2 Analysis of patterns of workers' demands, March-September 2011 -- Table 6.3 The rise in demands for tathir, March-September 2011 -- The battle for the streets -- A surge of social protest against the Brotherhood in power -- Table 6.4 Analysis of protests, February-May 2013 -- Chapter 7: Workers' Organisations since the Revolution -- Strike organisation since the revolution -- Strike organisation and union formation during the revolution -- The emergence of the national federations -- Table 7.1 EFITU registered unions by sector, October 2011 -- Trade-union bureaucracy in the independent unions -- The revival of the ETUF -- Conclusion: the limits of trade-unionism and the search for a political voice -- Chapter 8: The Crisis of Representation: Workers and Elections -- The reconfiguration of electoral politics after the fall of Mubarak -- Workers in the 2011-12 parliamentary elections -- From parliament to the presidential palace -- How did workers campaign and vote in the presidential elections? -- A swift and bitter end to the Brotherhood's honeymoon.

The crisis over the constitution -- The crisis of electoral legitimacy and the road to 30 June -- Chapter 9: Tathir: The Struggle to Cleanse the State -- The Officers' Republic and the military's grip on the 'shallow state' -- Cleansing the state: alternative perspectives -- Re-imagining the public sector from below -- Workers on the frontline of the battle against the Officers' Republic -- The 'Brotherhoodisation' of the state? -- From 'Rebellion' to compromise: Nasserism 2.0 -- Tathir from below: a provisional balance sheet -- Conclusion: Beyond the Republic of Dreams: revolutionary organisation, democracy and the question of the state -- The problem of democracy -- Problems of revolutionary organisation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The first detailed account of the role of the workers' movement in the Middle East uprisings.

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