Strike Action and Nation Building
Title | Strike Action and Nation Building PDF eBook |
Author | David De Vries |
Publisher | |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781782388098 |
Strike-action has long been a notable phenomenon in Israeli society, despite forces that have weakened its recurrence, such as the Arab-Jewish conflict, the decline of organized labor, and the increasing precariousness of employment. While the impact of strikes was not always immense, they are deeply rooted in Israel's past during the Ottoman Empire and Mandate Palestine. Workers persist in using them for material improvement and to gain power in both the private and public sectors, reproducing a vibrant social practice whose codes have withstood the test of time. This book unravels the trajectory of the strikes as a rich source for the social-historical analysis of an otherwise nation-oriented and highly politicized history.
Strike Action and Nation Building
Title | Strike Action and Nation Building PDF eBook |
Author | David De Vries |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 2015-07-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1782388109 |
Strike-action has long been a notable phenomenon in Israeli society, despite forces that have weakened its recurrence, such as the Arab-Jewish conflict, the decline of organized labor, and the increasing precariousness of employment. While the impact of strikes was not always immense, they are deeply rooted in Israel's past during the Ottoman Empire and Mandate Palestine. Workers persist in using them for material improvement and to gain power in both the private and public sectors, reproducing a vibrant social practice whose codes have withstood the test of time. This book unravels the trajectory of the strikes as a rich source for the social-historical analysis of an otherwise nation-oriented and highly politicized history.
Workers and Thieves
Title | Workers and Thieves PDF eBook |
Author | Joel Beinin |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 2015-11-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0804798648 |
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, 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 1970s. 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.
America's Role in Nation-Building
Title | America's Role in Nation-Building PDF eBook |
Author | James Dobbins |
Publisher | Rand Corporation |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2003-08-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0833034863 |
The post-World War II occupations of Germany and Japan set standards for postconflict nation-building that have not since been matched. Only in recent years has the United States has felt the need to participate in similar transformations, but it is now facing one of the most challenging prospects since the 1940s: Iraq. The authors review seven case studies--Germany, Japan, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan--and seek lessons about what worked well and what did not. Then, they examine the Iraq situation in light of these lessons. Success in Iraq will require an extensive commitment of financial, military, and political resources for a long time. The United States cannot afford to contemplate early exit strategies and cannot afford to leave the job half completed.
Working in Greece and Turkey
Title | Working in Greece and Turkey PDF eBook |
Author | Leda Papastefanaki |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 478 |
Release | 2020-07-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1789206979 |
As was the case in many other countries, it was only in the early years of this century that Greek and Turkish labour historians began to systematically look beyond national borders to investigate their intricately interrelated histories. The studies in Working in Greece and Turkey provide an overdue exploration of labour history on both sides of the Aegean, before as well as after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Deploying the approaches of global labour history as a framework, this volume presents transnational, transcontinental, and diachronic comparisons that illuminate the shared history of Greece and Turkey.
Nation-building as Necessary Effort in Fragile States
Title | Nation-building as Necessary Effort in Fragile States PDF eBook |
Author | René Grotenhuis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | POLITICAL SCIENCE |
ISBN | 9789462982192 |
René Grotenhuis analyses policies intended to bring stability to fragile states and shows how they ignore the question of what gives people a sense of belonging to a nation-state.
Nation-building and citizenship
Title | Nation-building and citizenship PDF eBook |
Author | Reinhard Bendix |
Publisher | Transaction Publishers |
Pages | 486 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1412829372 |