Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt
by
Joel Beinin
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
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...