Bread, freedom, social justice: workers and the Egyptian revolution

<Ul><li>Introduction: From the Republic of Tahrir to the Republic of Fear? Theorising Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Egypt</li><li>1. From Nasserism to Neoliberalism: A New Amalgam of State and Private Capital</li><li>2. The Changing Structure of the Egyptian Working Class in the Neoliberal Era</li><li>3. Strikes, Protests and the Development of a Revolutionary Crisis</li><li>4. Organisation in the Workplace Before the Revolution: The Nasserist Model in Crisis</li><li>5. From Strike Committee to Independent Union</li><li>6. The Revolution's Social Soul: Workers and the January Revolution</li><li>7. Workers' Organisations Since the Revolution</li><li>8. The Crisis of Representation: Workers and Elections</li><li>9. Tathir: The Struggle to Cleanse the State</li><li>Conclusion: Beyond the Republic of Dreams: Revolutionary Organisation, Democracy and the Question of the State</li></ul>

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

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