Labor and Environment in Egypt since 1500
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11213675 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amy Mikhail (0009-0004-0432-2952, Yale University, corresponding author), Alan Mikhail |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 85 |
| Pages | 10-32 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Labor and Working-Class History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0147-5479 • E-ISSN: 1471-6445 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0147547913000446 |
| OpenAlex | W2012846999 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 49 |
Taking the long view, this article analyzes how the expanding power of Egyptian elites, and the emergent commercial agriculture they sponsored, forever changed the rural labor practices of peasant cultivators and their relationships to environmental resources. From the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in 1517 until the second half of the eighteenth century, Egyptian farmers initiated and oversaw the construction and repair of small-scale irrigation and other infrastructural works in their local environments. They controlled how and when their labor was used. At the end of the eighteenth century, rural labor in Egypt dramatically changed. It became coerced, required the large-scale movement of peasant laborers, resulted in enormous environmental manipulation, and was often deadly. This article thus explains how forced labor, deleterious environmental exploitation, extractive economics, and population movements emerged at the end of the eighteenth century and how they have come to characterize the relationship between work and the environment in rural Egypt from that period until today
Agriculture · Ancient history · Archaeology · CONQUEST · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Geography · Peasant · Political science · Population · Power (physics · Sociology · Work (physics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Engineering · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2023 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |