The Workers’ Movement and the Arab Uprisings

Abstract

A review essay on books by 1) Maha Abdelrahman, Egypt's Long Revolution. Protest Movements and Uprisings (2015); 2) Anne Alexander, Mostafa Bassiouny, Bread, Freedom, Social Justice. Workers and the Egyptian Revolution (2014); 3) Joel Beinin, Workers and Thieves: Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt (2016); 4) John Chalcraft, The Invisible Cage. Syrian Migrant Workers in Lebanon (2009); 5) Adam Hanieh, Lineages of Revolt. Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East (2013); 6) Mehran Kamrava, Zahra Babar [Eds], Migrant Labor in the Persian Gulf (2012); & 7) Leila Simona Talani, The Arab Spring in the Global Political Economy (2014).