Introduction to a Special Issue on Labor in the Middle East and North Africa

Precarity, Inequality, and Migration

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ID3330683
AutoresDina Bishara (0000-0001-5440-7015, Dina Bishara is an Assistant Professor in the ILR School at Cornell University. This introductory essay is part of an ILR Review Special Issue on Labor in the Middle East and North Africa: Precarity, Inequality, and Migration, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen76
Número4
Páginas627-645
Fecha de publicación2023-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaIndustrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00197939231177025
OpenAlexW4383376995
ISBN9793923117702
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas77

Despite its political and strategic importance, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has been largely absent from cross-regional comparative treatments of industrial and labor relations. This special issue builds on a rich, multidisciplinary, and methodologically diverse body of research on labor and employment in the MENA, bringing together a collection of cutting-edge work in this field. The goal is to bring the study of the MENA into conversation with international and comparative scholarship on industrial and labor relations and to encourage more systematic inclusion of the MENA in comparative work. Drawing on research on Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, Israel, and the Gulf states, contributors to this special issue advance comparative scholarship on migration, labor market outcomes, worker agency, and the relationship between unions and precarious workers. This introductory essay situates these contributions in the context of three bodies of research in the study of labor in the MENA: resistance and contentious activism, labor market challenges, and migration

Agency (philosophy · Comparative research · Context (archaeology · Development economics · Economics · Geography · Labor relations · Middle East · Political science · Politics · Precarity · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Gender Studies · Industrial relations · Labor Movements and Unions · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender