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- Title
Independent Labor Movements (ILMs) and the Political Opportunity Structure (POS) after 25th January Egyptian Revolution.
- Authors
Nevine Zakaria Mohamed Amin
- Abstract
The paper assesses the effect of the Political Opportunity Structure (POS) (1)on the role of Independent Labor Movements (ILMs) after January 25th Egyptian Revolution, based on a case study of Misr Spinning and Weaving (Mahalla Company). It analyzes the development of the role from 2006 until the end of Morsi’s rule, through utilizing the three main determinants of the Political Process Model (PPM), within a framework of mobilizing structures, the political opportunity structure and the cultural framing. The paper argues that although the Egyptian Revolution had to provide positive environment for ILMs in Mahalla Company to pursue their legitimate right of existence in independent trade unions and federations, many concerns have been raised about their role after the revolution as a consequence of both their worse conditions and their lack of political vision within ILMs, including this missing of theoretical and actual steps. Such economic and political lack workers suffered gave both the political regime of Mubarak and Morsi, and even SCAF after the revolution, the full opportunity not only to create a state of divisions and controversies among workers as an attempt to weaken their collective activities but also to fill the labor milieu with several political parties and coalitions that serve their own interests, which contradict to those of workers. The case study of Mahalla Company affirms this argument. Additionally, the study highlights that the workers lack the political vision, and this does not only enable several political forces, such as the National Democratic Party (NDP), the ex-ruling party and the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), and the ruling power after the revolution, to fill this gap via imposing their ideologies and visions on workers. In addition, it also leads to the exposure of these movements to inevitable divisions, conflicts, and fragmentations as well.
- Subjects
LABOR movement; POLITICAL opportunity theory; EGYPTIAN revolution, Egypt, 2011
- Publication
Annals of Arts & Social Sciences / Hawliyyat Kulliyyat al-adab, 2018, Vol 38, Issue 491, p5
- ISSN
1560-5248
- Publication type
Article