Reviews

"A book that is as likely to be of interest to the growing number of disciples of Marxist labor history pioneered by E. J. Hobsbawm and E. P. Thompson as to students of the history of modern Egypt. The authors are clearly committed to the view that a reexamination of the living conditions and political aspirations of the working class is inseparable from the practice and writing of history. They have written a vigorous and well-documented study of the political and organizational structure of Egyptian trade unionism as an important if not determining aspect of the rise and development of Egyptian nationalism in the first half of the twentieth century."--Choice