Relli Shechter (Israel Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class

Socio-Economic Mobility and Public Discontent from Nasser to Sadat

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Produktbeschreibung

The Middle Eastern oil boom during the 1970sâ 80s led to swift economic growth and increased socio-economic mobility in Egypt. Here, Relli Shechter offers a local version of a wider Middle Eastern and international story: the global formation of middle-class societies, whose members strove for respectable lives with only partial success.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 235g
• ISBN-13: 9781108474481
• ISBN-10: 1108474489
• Artikelnr.: 53170202

Autorenporträt

Relli Shechter is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He trained as an economic historian and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is the author of Smoking, Culture and Economy in the Middle East: The Egyptian Tobacco Market, 1850-2000 (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Working into the middle class
3. 'Crisis of supply in every household'
4. 'Provocative consumption'
5. 'Parasites'
6. The resurgence of middle-class Islam
7. Conclusion: socio-economic mobility and discontent.