Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954

This groundbreaking book examines the role of trade unionism and the working class in the development of Egyptian nationalism during the first half of the twentieth century. Beinin and Lockman examine, "the dialectic of class and nation [and] the formation of a new class of wage workers as Egypt experienced a particular kind of capitalist development . . . ."