Workers and Thieves
Since the 1990s, 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...
Since the 1990s, 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...
