The Foundations of State-Labor Relations in Contemporary Egypt

Goldberg, Ellis

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“…48. For more on the state-labour relation in MENA, especially as it applies to the case of Egypt, see Goldberg (1992). never a product of pressure from private capital, although the latter was later accorded the same treatment as international capital (the state needed part of private capital to return home, since Arab flight capital is estimated at close to$500 bn).49 The interesting and understandable thing, though, is that Arab regimes are not rushing liberalization.…”

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Trade, Globalization, Employment, and Wages: Evidence from grab MENA

Bolbol

1999

Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'ét

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The purpose of this paper is to provide an evaluative analysis of the impact of trade and globalization on income, employment, and wages in the Arab countries of the Middle East and North Afiica (MENA) over the 1980-95 period. Itjirst studies the behaviour of Arab barter, income, and factoral terms of trade, and analyzes their effects on Arab income. It then evaluates the extent ofglobalization in the Arab world, and considers its political significance. This is followed by the derivation of a relationship that will determine the behaviour of wages and employment, and a case study of the impact of trade on relative wages in Egypt. Thepaper closes with a political economy analysis of the autonomy of the Arab state in an era ofglobalization. Nord entre 1980Nord entre et 1995 examine d'abord le flux et les conditions des kchanges et du revenu ainsi que les termes factoriels de ces kchanges, puis il analyse leurs retombkes sur le revenu des pays arabes. I1 tente ensuite de dkterminer l'ampleur et la portee politique de la mondialisation au sein de ces pays. Suit une dkrivation des rapports par laquelle l'auteur dkjinit le flu. et les conditions de l'emploi et de la re'munkration, avec une e'tude de cas sur I'effet du commerce sur les salaires relatifs en Bgypte. L'auteur conclut par une analyse d'kconomie politique dkterminant le degrk d'autonomie dontjouissent les Btats arabes a l'tre de la mondialisation. Dans cet article, lbuteur kvalue les rkpercussions qu'ont eues le commerce et la mondialisation sur le revenu, l'emploi et les salaires dans les pays arabes du Moyen Orient et de 1'Afrique du

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Trade, Globalization, Employment, and Wages: Evidence from grab MENA

Bolbol

1999

Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'ét

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“…Thus, while the regime moved labour organisation from pluralism to corporatism, it did so through political inclusion and selectively co-opting, rather than excluding, the working class from socio-economic development processes in order to secure its acquiescence. 4 Similarly, the new regime guaranteed state employment to all university graduates; even at minimal wages, such guaranteed employment, garnering the allegiance of the rising middle class, has been correctly seen by many scholars as integral to the sustainability of the regime and a corner-stone in public consent for authoritarianism (Goldberg 1992, El Mikawy 1999, Pratt 2007. Thus, the working class, broadly defined (including blue-collar workers and the majority of state white-collar workers), has been playing a role in shaping the ruling pact of state -society relations, even as it was itself conditioned by it.…”

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Labour protests in Egypt: causes and meanings

El‐Mahdi

2011

Review of African Political Economy

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Egypt has experienced a wave of unprecedented labour protests since December 2006. Refuting moral economy and rational choice arguments as a basis for understanding labour unrest in Egypt, this paper argues that this wave of protests is an outcome of the rupture of the hegemonic ruling pact governing Egypt since 1952. As such, this movement, which includes both industrial workers as well as white-collar state employees, should be interpreted beyond its immediate material demands. Rather, the paper argues, the changing constituency, tactics, and internal organisation of the movement all point to the potential role that it can play in further eroding the corporatist–authoritarian structure governing state-society relations in Egypt. The paper concludes that this movement might be carrying the potential for wider democratisation.

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“…In September 1952 the founding conference of a national trade union federation was suddenly postponed by the government: it was not until 1957 that the authorities allowed the establishment of the federation (Pripstein Posusney, 1997). The transformation of the Egyptian union movement into an appendage of the army regime has been the subject of extensive study (Beinin, 1989;Bianchi, 1986;Goldberg, 1992;Pripstein Posusney, 1997). There is general agreement that a large part of the labour movement was brought into a new relationship with the state, where the trade unions' independence was sharply restricted and they were eventually incorporated into a project of national development.…”

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Leadership and collective action in the Egyptian trade unions

Alexander

2010

Work, Employment and Society

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This article explores leadership and collective action in the Egyptian workers’ movement since the 1940s, with a focus on the competition between different models of leadership. It argues that leadership is a dialogical process, and distinguishes between two models of leadership — bureaucratic and democratic — which sit at opposite ends of a spectrum of reciprocity between ‘leaders’ and ‘led’. Although such developments are as yet embryonic, the emergence of a democratic model of union leadership, rooted in the particular forms of collective action adopted by Egyptian workers during the post-2006 strike wave, presents the most significant challenge to the dominance of the bureaucratic model since the creation of the current union federation in the 1950s.

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The Foundations of State-Labor Relations in Contemporary Egypt

Cited by 8 publications

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Trade, Globalization, Employment, and Wages: Evidence from grab MENA

Trade, Globalization, Employment, and Wages: Evidence from grab MENA

Labour protests in Egypt: causes and meanings

Leadership and collective action in the Egyptian trade unions

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