This edited volume presents a detailed account of the dynamics of socioeconomic contention in Egypt and Tunisia since 2011. Combining quantitative and qualitative methods, it analyses what has happened to the socioeconomic grievances that played a key role in the mass mobilizations of 2010 and 2011. The book is based on an original data set of socioeconomic protests in the two countries and on in-depth case studies that cover the two most important types of socioeconomic contention: labor protests and protests by socioeconomically disadvantaged people outside the formal economy. Drawing on a systematic review of comparative research on Latin America, the authors argue that the dynamics of socioeconomic contention in contemporary Egypt and Tunisia reflect a deep-seated crisis of popular sector incorporation. This work promises to enrich the scholarly and the political debates on Egypt and Tunisia, the MENA region and on contentious politics in times of political change.

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Irene Weipert-Fenner is Project Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Germany.

Jonas Wolff is Head of the Research Department "Intrastate Conflict" and executive board member of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Germany.

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Irene Weipert-Fenner is Project Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Germany.

Jonas Wolff is Head of the Research Department Intrastate Conflict and executive board member of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Germany.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Socioeconomic protests in times of political change: Studying Egypt and Tunisia from a comparative perspectiveIrene Weipert-Fenner and Jonas Wolff
   Part I: General Trends

2. Beyond regime change: The state and the crisis of governance in post-2011 Egypt and TunisiaAmr Adly and Hamza Meddeb

3. Socioeconomic contention in post-2011 Egypt and Tunisia: A comparisonPrisca Jöst and Jan-Philipp Vatthauer
   Part II: Organized Labor

4. Organized labor and political change in Latin America: An overviewJonas Wolff

5. Proposals, intermediation, and pressure: The three roles of the UGTT in Tunisia'spost-revolutionary constitutional processBassem Karray 

6. From the dream of change to the nightmare of structural weakness: The trajectory of Egypt'sindependent trade union movement after 2011Nadine Abdalla
   Part III: Marginalized Groups

7. Contention by marginalized groups and political change in Latin America: An overviewJonas Wolff

8. Unemployed protests in Tunisia: Between grassroots activism and formal organizationSamiha Hamdi and Irene Weipert-Fenner

9. Mobilized along the margins: Survival strategies of tuktuk drivers in EgyptNayera Abdelrahman Soliman
   Conclusion 

10. From North Africa to Latin America and back: Comparative findings and theoretical reflectionsIrene Weipert-Fenner and Jonas Wolff