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1 online resource (xv, 259 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East |
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SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East.
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Contents |
Shop Floor Culture and Politics in Egypt -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Translations and Transliterations -- 1. Introduction -- Approaches to Social Class and Class Structure -- Method: Choosing Cases and Factories and the Logic of Fieldwork and Participant Observation -- Structure of the Book -- 2. Plastic Sandals, Tea, and Time: Shop Floor Culture and the Production of Class in Egypt -- Workers' Experiences at Work -- Who Is a Worker? -- Producing Difference -- Time and Wages -- The Structure of the Workday -- Shop Floor Culture -- Conclusion |
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3. The Labor Process -- The Labor Process and Resistance -- The Production Process in the Wool Preparations Department -- The Labor Process on the Winding Machine -- Resistance and the Labor Process at MIDIA -- Resistance and the Labor Process at Misr Textiles -- Resistance Strategies Compared: MIDIA and Misr Textiles -- Machine Design, Technology, and Workers' Practices -- Fathy and "Output Restriction" -- Conclusion -- 4. Indiscipline and Unruly Practices -- Sabotage -- Thorstein Veblen and Sabotage -- Resistance: Michel Foucault and James Scott -- Theft-or-Pilfering |
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Conclusion: Practical Knowledge and Theoretical Insight -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z |
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Evasion and Escape: The Art of Getting Lost -- Subversive Discourse and Narratives of Resistance -- Conclusion -- 5. In the Basha's House -- The CEO as Leviathan -- Presidential Visits -- Engineers and Shift Supervisors -- Musical Chairs -- Shift Supervisors and Workers -- The Ideology of Authoritarian Social Relations -- Conclusion -- 6. Ethnography, Identity, and the Production of Knowledge: Or How I Know What I Know AboutEgyptian Workers and Factories -- Egyptian-American -- Researcher -- Trust -- Class -- Gender -- Religion -- Regional Background |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-251) and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Textile workers -- Egypt -- Alexandria Region -- Social conditions
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Factory system -- Egypt -- Alexandria Region
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Working class -- Egypt -- Case studies
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Knowledge Capital.
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Economic history
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Factory system
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Social conditions
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Textile workers -- Social conditions
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Working class
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SUBJECT |
Alexandria Region (Egypt) -- Social conditions
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Alexandria Region (Egypt) -- Economic conditions
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Subject |
Egypt
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Genre/Form |
Case studies
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781441627094 |
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144162709X |
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9781438428567 |
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1438428561 |
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