Samer S. Shehata is Assistant Professor of Arab Politics at Georgetown University.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNotes on Translations and Transliterations1. IntroductionApproaches to Social Class and Class StructureMethod: Choosing Cases and Factories and the Logic of Fieldwork and Participant ObservationStructure of the Book2. Plastic Sandals, Tea, and Time: Shop Floor Culture and the Production of Class in EgyptWorkers’ Experiences at WorkWho Is a Worker?Producing DifferenceTime and WagesThe Structure of the WorkdayShop Floor CultureConclusion3. The Labor ProcessThe Labor Process and ResistanceThe Production Process in the Wool Preparations DepartmentThe Labor Process on the Winding MachineResistance and the Labor Process at MIDIAResistance and the Labor Process at Misr TextilesResistance Strategies Compared: MIDIA and Misr TextilesMachine Design, Technology, and Workers’ PracticesFathy and "Output Restriction"Conclusion4. Indiscipline and Unruly PracticesSabotageThorstein Veblen and SabotageResistance: Michel Foucault and James ScottTheft—or—PilferingEvasion and Escape: The Art of Getting LostSubversive Discourse and Narratives of ResistanceConclusion5. In the Basha’s HouseThe CEO as LeviathanPresidential VisitsEngineers and Shift SupervisorsMusical ChairsShift Supervisors and WorkersThe Ideology of Authoritarian Social RelationsConclusion6. Ethnography, Identity, and the Production of Knowledge: Or How I Know What I Know About Egyptian Workers and FactoriesEgyptian-AmericanResearcherTrustClassGenderReligionRegional BackgroundConclusion: Practical Knowledge and Theoretical Insight7. ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Samer S. Shehata is Assistant Professor of Arab Politics at Georgetown University.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNotes on Translations and Transliterations1. IntroductionApproaches to Social Class and Class StructureMethod: Choosing Cases and Factories and the Logic of Fieldwork and Participant ObservationStructure of the Book2. Plastic Sandals, Tea, and Time: Shop Floor Culture and the Production of Class in EgyptWorkers’ Experiences at WorkWho Is a Worker?Producing DifferenceTime and WagesThe Structure of the WorkdayShop Floor CultureConclusion3. The Labor ProcessThe Labor Process and ResistanceThe Production Process in the Wool Preparations DepartmentThe Labor Process on the Winding MachineResistance and the Labor Process at MIDIAResistance and the Labor Process at Misr TextilesResistance Strategies Compared: MIDIA and Misr TextilesMachine Design, Technology, and Workers’ PracticesFathy and "Output Restriction"Conclusion4. Indiscipline and Unruly PracticesSabotageThorstein Veblen and SabotageResistance: Michel Foucault and James ScottTheft—or—PilferingEvasion and Escape: The Art of Getting LostSubversive Discourse and Narratives of ResistanceConclusion5. In the Basha’s HouseThe CEO as LeviathanPresidential VisitsEngineers and Shift SupervisorsMusical ChairsShift Supervisors and WorkersThe Ideology of Authoritarian Social RelationsConclusion6. Ethnography, Identity, and the Production of Knowledge: Or How I Know What I Know About Egyptian Workers and FactoriesEgyptian-AmericanResearcherTrustClassGenderReligionRegional BackgroundConclusion: Practical Knowledge and Theoretical Insight7. ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Samer S. Shehata is Assistant Professor of Arab Politics at Georgetown University.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNotes on Translations and Transliterations1. IntroductionApproaches to Social Class and Class StructureMethod: Choosing Cases and Factories and the Logic of Fieldwork and Participant ObservationStructure of the Book2. Plastic Sandals, Tea, and Time: Shop Floor Culture and the Production of Class in EgyptWorkers’ Experiences at WorkWho Is a Worker?Producing DifferenceTime and WagesThe Structure of the WorkdayShop Floor CultureConclusion3. The Labor ProcessThe Labor Process and ResistanceThe Production Process in the Wool Preparations DepartmentThe Labor Process on the Winding MachineResistance and the Labor Process at MIDIAResistance and the Labor Process at Misr TextilesResistance Strategies Compared: MIDIA and Misr TextilesMachine Design, Technology, and Workers’ PracticesFathy and "Output Restriction"Conclusion4. Indiscipline and Unruly PracticesSabotageThorstein Veblen and SabotageResistance: Michel Foucault and James ScottTheft—or—PilferingEvasion and Escape: The Art of Getting LostSubversive Discourse and Narratives of ResistanceConclusion5. In the Basha’s HouseThe CEO as LeviathanPresidential VisitsEngineers and Shift SupervisorsMusical ChairsShift Supervisors and WorkersThe Ideology of Authoritarian Social RelationsConclusion6. Ethnography, Identity, and the Production of Knowledge: Or How I Know What I Know About Egyptian Workers and FactoriesEgyptian-AmericanResearcherTrustClassGenderReligionRegional BackgroundConclusion: Practical Knowledge and Theoretical Insight7. ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex