The Striking Cabbies of Cairo and Other Stories - Crafts and Guilds in Egypt, 1863-1914

This book charts new directions in Egyptian social history, providing the first systematic account of adaptation and protest among crafts and service workers in Egypt in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using a wealth of new sources, John T. Chalcraft challenges conventional notions of craft stagnation and decline by recovering the largely unknown histories of crafts workers' restructuring in the face of world economic integration, and their petitions, demonstrations, and strike-action at a tim

About the author

John T. Chalcraft is Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Edinburgh.

Product details

• Authors: John T Chalcraft, John T. Chalcraft
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2004
• EAN: 9780791461433
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-6143-3
• No. of pages: 285
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Suny Series in the Social and; Suny the Social and Economic H
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches