![]() | Trade Unions and Arab Revolutions: Challenging the Regime in Egypt Subjects: Area Studies; Economics Finance Business & Industry; Humanities; Politics & International Relations; Government; Middle East Studies; Business Management and Accounting; History; Middle East History; Human Resource Management; Organizational Studies; Political History; Labor History; Protest Movements; Revolution - Government; "We started the 2011 revolution and the rest of Egypt followed," say Egyptian workers with strong conviction and passion. Egyptian independent workers' continuous claims of contention and protest repertoires were one of several main factors leading to the January 25, 2011, uprising. After thirty-two years of a Mubarak-led authoritarian regime, massive protests began in January 2011 and forced President Mubarak to step down from his position on February 11, 2011. So, how did Egyptian workers challenge the regime and how did they become one of the factors leading to the January 2011 uprising? These workers were organized into loose networks of different independent groups that had been protesting for a decade and longer prior to January 2011. These regular protests for over a decade before 2011 challenged the Egyptian authoritarian regime.
Heba F. El-Shazli is an Assistant Professor at George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on International Relations Theory; Politics, Government and Society of the Middle East; Israeli-Palestinian Politics; and Islam and Politics. She is an affiliate faculty to the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies (AVACGIS) at George Mason University. She is also an Adjunct Faculty at Georgetown University's Master's Degree Program at the Center for Democracy and Civil Society. |
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