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Author Bayat, Asef.

Title Street politics : poor people's movements in Iran / Asef Bayat
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [1997]
©1997

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Description xxiii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Chronology of Pre- and Postrevolution Events -- 1. The Quiet Encroachment of the Ordinary -- 2. Mapping Out the "New Poor" -- 3. The Disfranchised and the Islamic Revolution: "Our Revolution and Theirs" -- 4. The Housing Rebels: The Occupation of Homes and Hotels, 1979-1981 -- 5. Back-Street Politics: Squatters and the State -- 6. Workless Revolutionaries: The Movement of the Unemployed -- 7. Street Rebels: The Politics of Street Vending -- 8. Grassroots and State Power: The Promise and Perils of Quiet Encroachment
Notes Bibliography: p201-216. - Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-216) and index
Subject Poor -- Political activity -- Iran.
Squatter settlements -- Iran.
Squatters -- Iran.
Vending stands -- Iran.
SUBJECT Iran -- Politics and government -- 1979-1997. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067913
LC no. 97018986
ISBN 0231108583 (cloth : alk. paper)
0231108591 (paper)