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Joel Beinin, Workers and Thieves: Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015.

Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?

Joel Be..

On 11 February, 2011, I stood in Tahrir Square surrounded by millions celebrating the toppling of Mubarak following eighteen solid days of battle. Around me were people from all walks of life: Saʿidis (Upper Egyptians) who came all the way from the south, street children turned rebels, fa..

[The following report was authored by Joel Beinin and published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on 28 June 2012.] 

With the ongoing marginalization of Egypt’s working classes, the revolutionary demands of “bread, freedom, and social justice” remain distant goals. On this second Labor Day since Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, numerous labor grievances remain unaddressed, and workers are just as politically sidelined ..

On 30 January 2011, only five days into the revolution, the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions was born, the first such federation to be established in since the union movement was monopolized by the state-controlled Egyptian Trade Union Federation in 1957. Since then, some three hu..

The perceived gains won by the Egyptian workers and independent trade unionists in the wake of the eighteen-day uprising have given way to stark realities under the military junta`s `counter-revolutionary` rule.

After a wave of strikes and workers` action fuelled and empowered Egy..