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Joel Beinin's 2001 survey of subaltern history in the Middle East demonstrates lucidly and compellingly how the lives, experiences and culture of working people can inform our historical understanding. Beginning in the middle of the eighteenth century, the book charts the history of peasants, urban artisans and modern working-classes across the lands of the Ottoman empire and its Muslim-majority successor-states, including the Balkans, Turkey, the Arab Middle East and North Africa. Inspired by the approach of the Indian Subaltern Studies school, the book is the first to offer a synthesized critical assessment of the scholarly work on the social history of this region for the last twenty years. It offers insights into the political, economic and social life of ordinary men and women and their apprehension of their own experiences. Students will find it rich in narrative detail, and accessible and authoritative in presentation.

Working class --- Artisans --- Peasants --- Travailleurs --- Paysannerie --- History --- Histoire --- Artisans. --- Peasantry. --- Peasantry - Middle East - History. --- Working class. --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Business & Economics --- History. --- Arts and Humanities --- Peasantry --- Artizans --- Craftsmen --- Craftspeople --- Craftspersons --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Employment --- Agricultural laborers --- Rural population --- Marks (Medieval land tenure) --- Villeinage --- Skilled labor --- Cottage industries --- Social classes --- Labor --- Sociology of work --- anno 1900-1999 --- Middle East

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Labor movement --- Working class --- History --- Political activity --- Tunisia --- Egypt --- Internal politics --- anno 2010-2019

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Since the 1990's, the Middle East has experienced an upsurge of wildcat strikes, sit-ins, and workers' demonstrations. Well before people gathered in Tahrir Square to demand the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, workers had formed one of the largest oppositional movements to authoritarian rule in Egypt. In Tunisia, years prior to the 2011 Arab uprisings, the unemployed chanted in protest, "A job is a right, you pack of thieves!" Despite this history, most observers have failed to acknowledge the importance of workers in the social ferment preceding the removal of Egyptian and Tunisian autocrats and in the political realignments after their demise. In Workers and Thieves, Joel Beinin corrects this by surveying the efforts and impacts of the workers' movements in Egypt and Tunisia since the 1970's. He argues that the 2011 uprisings in these countries—and, importantly, their vastly different outcomes—are best understood within the context of these repeated mobilizations of workers and the unemployed over recent decades.

Labor movement --- Working class --- History. --- Political activity --- Tunisia --- Egypt --- History

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Social change --- Community organization --- Northern Africa --- Middle East --- Social movements --- Political participation --- Political aspects --- Africa, North --- Politics and government --- North Africa --- Social movements - Political aspects - Middle East - Case studies --- Social movements - Political aspects - Africa, North - Case studies --- Political participation - Middle East - Case studies --- Political participation - Africa, North - Case studies --- Middle East - Politics and government - 1979 --- -Africa, North - Politics and government

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Islam and politics --- Middle East --- Africa [North ] --- Politics and government