The Egyptian Labor Corps

Author : Kyle J. Anderson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477324569
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Egyptian Labor Corps written by Kyle J. Anderson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War I, the British Empire enlisted half a million young men, predominantly from the countryside of Egypt, in the Egyptian Labor Corps (ELC) and put them to work handling military logistics in Europe and the Middle East. British authorities reneged on their promise not to draw Egyptians into the war, and, as Kyle Anderson shows, the ELC was seen by many in Egypt as a form of slavery. The Egyptian Labor Corps tells the forgotten story of these young men, culminating in the essential part they came to play in the 1919 Egyptian Revolution. Combining sources from archives in four countries, Anderson explores Britain’s role in Egypt during this period and how the ELC came to be, as well as the experiences and hardships these men endured. As he examines the ways they coped—through music, theater, drugs, religion, strikes, and mutiny—he illustrates how Egyptian nationalists, seeing their countrymen in a state akin to slavery, began to grasp that they had been racialized as “people of color.” Documenting the history of the ELC and its work during the First World War, The Egyptian Labor Corps also provides a fascinating reinterpretation of the 1919 revolution through the lens of critical race theory.

Author : Kyle John Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Egyptian Labor Corps written by Kyle John Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history of World War I in Egypt. But it does not offer a military history focused on generals and officers as they strategized in grand halls or commanded their troops in battle. Rather, this dissertation follows the Egyptian workers and peasants who provided the labor that built and maintained the vast logistical network behind the front lines of the British war machine. These migrant laborers were organized into a new institution that redefined the relationship between state and society in colonial Egypt from the beginning of World War I until the end of the 1919 Egyptian Revolution: the "Egyptian Labor Corps" (ELC). I focus on these laborers, not only to document their experiences, but also to investigate the ways in which workers and peasants in Egypt were entangled with the broader global political economy. The ELC linked Egyptian workers and peasants into the global political economy by turning them into an important source of logistical laborers for the British Empire during World War I. The changes inherent in this transformation were imposed on the Egyptian countryside, but workers and peasants also played an important role in the process by creating new political imaginaries, influencing state policy, and fashioning new and increasingly violent repertoires of contentious politics to engage with the ELC. The institutionalization of the ELC thus entailed a re-articulation of the networked space of the British colonial state in Egypt, which would have important implications for Egyptian history. In particular, I track how the spatial transformations necessary to recruit, transport, and deploy roughly half a million workers and peasants from all corners of Egypt in the ELC structured mass politics during in the 1919 Egyptian revolution. Focusing on the role of ELC laborers in the broader revolutionary process can serve to check the validity of the common belief that the centralized nationalist movement coordinated the rural uprisings that spread throughout the countryside in March 1919. I argue that the cause of these uprisings cannot be reduced to sympathy with the urban-based nationalist movement. I find that recruitment for the ELC engendered a variety of violent demonstrations in the countryside as early as May 1918, and played an important role in motivating anti-British violence during the 1919 revolution, over and above any sympathies to the nationalist movement.

Author : Ragui Assaad
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198737254
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Egyptian Labor Market in an Era of Revolution written by Ragui Assaad and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses the results of the latest round of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS) from 2012. The chapters cover topics that contribute to understanding the conditions leading to the Egyptian revolution of 25 January 2011.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Photo album Egyptian Labour Corps. Reminiscences of the Great War, 1914-1918 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ragui Assaad
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774247125
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Egyptian Labor Market in an Era of Reform written by Ragui Assaad and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the changes that occurred in the Egyptian labor market over a ten-year period

Author : Ragui Assaad
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1617973939
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Egypt's Labor Market Revisited written by Ragui Assaad and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a follow-up to a 1998 publication by the Economic Research Forum (ERF). Its significance lies in the contributors' reliance on fresh data and solid analytical techniques used to examine a wide spectrum of pertinent issues concerning the labor market in Egypt. The range of topics includes labor supply, employment and unemployment, youth labor market school-to-work transition, internal and international migration, earnings and inequality, and gender and education. The papers in this volume are the very first research available based on data collected in the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey of 2006, a follow-up to the Egypt Labor Market Survey of 1998. The panel design used for collecting data is state-of-the-art methodology in the labor field, and has never before been implemented in Egypt on this scale. Contributors: Mohamed Fotouh Abulata, Mona Amer, Ragui Assaad, Ghada Barsoum, Asmaa Elbadawi, Fatma El Hamidi, Alia El Mahdi, Ali Rashed, Rania Roushdy, Mona Said, Jackline Wahba.

Author : Ragui Assaad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191800733
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Egyptian Labor Market in an Era of Revolution written by Ragui Assaad and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysing the results of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS) from 2012, the chapters in this book cover topics that contribute to understanding the conditions leading to the Egyptian revolution of January 2011

Author : H.A. Hellyer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755643631
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Egyptian Revolution of 1919 written by H.A. Hellyer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1919 Egyptian revolution was the founding event for modern Egypt's nation state. So far there has been no text that looks at the causes, consequences and legacies of the 1919 Egyptian Revolution. This book addresses that gap, with Egyptian and non-Egyptian scholars discussing a range of topics that link back to that crucial event in Egyptian history. Across nine chapters, the book analyzes the causes and course of the 1919 revolution; its impacts on subsequent political beliefs, practices and institutions; and its continuing legacy as a means of regime legitimation. The chapters reveal that the 1919 Egyptian Revolution divided the British while uniting Egyptians. However, the “revolutionary moment” was superseded by efforts to restore Britain's influence in league with a reassertion of monarchical authority. Those efforts enjoyed tactical, but not long-term strategic success, in part because the 1919 revolution had unleashed nationalist forces that could never again be completely contained. The book covers key issues surrounding the 1919 Egyptian Revolution such as the role played by Lord Allenby; internal schisms within the British government struggling to cope with the revolution; Muslim-Christian relations; and divisions among the Egyptians.

Author : Aaron G. Jakes
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503612627
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Egypt's Occupation written by Aaron G. Jakes and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of capitalism in Egypt has long been synonymous with cotton cultivation and dependent development. From this perspective, the British occupation of 1882 merely sealed the country's fate as a vast plantation for European textile mills. All but obscured in such accounts, however, is Egypt's emergence as a colonial laboratory for financial investment and experimentation. Egypt's Occupation tells for the first time the story of that financial expansion and the devastating crises that followed. Aaron Jakes offers a sweeping reinterpretation of both the historical geography of capitalism in Egypt and the role of political-economic thought in the struggles that raged over the occupation. He traces the complex ramifications and the contested legacy of colonial economism, the animating theory of British imperial rule that held Egyptians to be capable of only a recognition of their own bare economic interests. Even as British officials claimed that "economic development" and the multiplication of new financial institutions would be crucial to the political legitimacy of the occupation, Egypt's early nationalists elaborated their own critical accounts of boom and bust. As Jakes shows, these Egyptian thinkers offered a set of sophisticated and troubling meditations on the deeper contradictions of capitalism and the very meaning of freedom in a capitalist world.

Author : H.A. Hellyer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755643658
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Egyptian Revolution of 1919 written by H.A. Hellyer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1919 Egyptian revolution was the founding event for modern Egypt's nation state. So far there has been no text that looks at the causes, consequences and legacies of the 1919 Egyptian Revolution. This book addresses that gap, with Egyptian and non-Egyptian scholars discussing a range of topics that link back to that crucial event in Egyptian history. Across nine chapters, the book analyzes the causes and course of the 1919 revolution; its impacts on subsequent political beliefs, practices and institutions; and its continuing legacy as a means of regime legitimation. The chapters reveal that the 1919 Egyptian Revolution divided the British while uniting Egyptians. However, the “revolutionary moment” was superseded by efforts to restore Britain's influence in league with a reassertion of monarchical authority. Those efforts enjoyed tactical, but not long-term strategic success, in part because the 1919 revolution had unleashed nationalist forces that could never again be completely contained. The book covers key issues surrounding the 1919 Egyptian Revolution such as the role played by Lord Allenby; internal schisms within the British government struggling to cope with the revolution; Muslim-Christian relations; and divisions among the Egyptians.