Shop Floor Culture and Politics in Egypt Richard Kelly

Shop Floor Culture and Politics in Egypt Richard KellyEthnographic study of textile factory workers in Alexandria, Egypt. In Shop Floor Culture and Politics in Egypt, Samer S. Shehata provides us with a unique and detailed ethnographic portrait of life within two large textile factories in Alexandria, Egypt. Working for nearly a year as a "winding machine operator" provided Shehata with unprecedented access to workers at the point of production and the activities of the work hall. He argues that the

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when money became a claim backed by reputation rather than by physical commodities of any kind

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Examines the role of forgetfulness in our understanding of the Holocaust

Human liberation has become an epochal challenge in today’s world

The papers explore the use of Latin in different contexts at different periods

replete with interactive examples

organizational and institutional capacities of researchers and research bodies

This book provides a fresh

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