Joel Beinin

Beinin, Joel

Ed — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:17:28 +0000

The Militancy of Mahalla al-Kubra - Joel Beinin

Khawaga — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:18:28 +0000

For the second time in less than a year, in the final week of September the 24,000 workers of the Misr Spinning and Weaving Company in Mahalla al-Kubra went on strike -- and won. As they did the first time, in December 2006, the workers occupied the Nile Delta town’s mammoth textile mill and rebuffed the initial mediation efforts of Egypt’s ruling National Democratic Party (NDP).

Strikes in Egypt spread from centre of gravity

Ed — Sun, 13 May 2007 12:56:00 +0000

Take from Middle East Report Online

In the first five months of 2007, the paper has reported a new labour action nearly every day. The citizen group Egyptian Workers and Trade Union Watch documented 56 incidents during the month of April, and another 15 during the first week of May alone.[1]

Egyptian textile workers confront the new economic order

Ed — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:54:52 +0000

For the last ten years Muhammad ‘Attar, 36, has worked in the finishing department at the gigantic Misr Spinning and Weaving Company complex at Mahalla al-Kubra in the middle of the Nile Delta. He takes home a basic wage of about $30. With profit sharing and incentives, his net pay is about $75 a month.