Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954In 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, organization, and collective action in a political and economic context structured by the realities of foreign domination and the struggle for national independence." "This work breaks new ground in contemporary Western scholarship on the Middle East and challenges Orientalist assumptions that classes do not exist, or play only an insignificant role. The authors' careful and comprehensive account of the workers and their unions is obviously understanding of, and sympathetic to, the working class. Yet it is free of the rather mechanistic and reductionist analyses of earlier writings on the subject." -- Nazih Ayubi, MESA Bulletin. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Formation of the Egyptian Working Class | 23 |
The Emergence of Labor Activism 18991914 | 48 |
The Unions the Left and the Wafd 19201924 | 121 |
Workers Effendis Pashas and a Prince | 171 |
Toward an Independent Workers Movement | 218 |
The Formation of an Industrial Proletariat | 257 |
The Struggle for the Trade Unions During the War | 285 |
Communist Factionalism and the Workers Movement | 327 |
The Workers Committee for National Liberation | 335 |
Problems and Prospects | 342 |
Repression and Reorganization | 349 |
The Strike Wave Continues | 359 |
Muslim Brothers and Communists in Shubra alKhayma | 366 |
The Muslim Brothers Vision of a Moral Economy | 376 |
The Labor Movement and the Crisis of the Old Regime | 395 |
Abbas Halim Returns to the Labor Movement | 303 |
Communism and the Egyptian Workers Movement | 310 |
Workers in the Electoral Arena | 321 |
The Free Officers and the Labor Movement | 418 |
Conclusion | 448 |
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