Title Shop floor culture and politics in Egypt / Samer S. Shehata

Published Albany : SUNY Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 259 pages) : illustrations Series SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East. 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 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 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 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 Print version record Subject Textile workers -- Egypt -- Alexandria Region -- Social conditions Factory system -- Egypt -- Alexandria Region Working class -- Egypt -- Case studies BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Knowledge Capital. Economic history Factory system Social conditions Textile workers -- Social conditions Working class SUBJECT Alexandria Region (Egypt) -- Social conditions Alexandria Region (Egypt) -- Economic conditions Subject Egypt Genre/Form Case studies Form Electronic book ISBN 9781441627094 144162709X 9781438428567 1438428561

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