Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Labor Protest in North Africa: Expectations and Realities
- 3 Labor Control Regimes and Initial Conditions: Comparing Morocco and Tunisia
- 4 Workers in an Era of Change: Union Responses to Early Neoliberal Reforms
- 5 Workers in an Age of Adjustment: Union Reactions to Structural Adjustment Programs
- 6 Workers in the Shadow of Reform: Labor Protest in the Autumn of Autocracy
- 7 Workers after the “Spring”: Labor Mobilization in an Era of Uncertainty
- 8 Conclusion: Implications for North Africa and Beyond
- Appendices
- Appendix A Labor Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa Database
- Appendix B Interviews
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Labor Control Regimes and Initial Conditions: Comparing Morocco and Tunisia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2025
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Labor Protest in North Africa: Expectations and Realities
- 3 Labor Control Regimes and Initial Conditions: Comparing Morocco and Tunisia
- 4 Workers in an Era of Change: Union Responses to Early Neoliberal Reforms
- 5 Workers in an Age of Adjustment: Union Reactions to Structural Adjustment Programs
- 6 Workers in the Shadow of Reform: Labor Protest in the Autumn of Autocracy
- 7 Workers after the “Spring”: Labor Mobilization in an Era of Uncertainty
- 8 Conclusion: Implications for North Africa and Beyond
- Appendices
- Appendix A Labor Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa Database
- Appendix B Interviews
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter examines the initial conditions underlying the book’s theory by analyzing authoritarian labor control policies and political developments in Tunisia and Morocco in the postindependence period. It explores how these control strategies shaped unions’ interests, capacities, and perceptions during the early stages of state formation and investigates how relationships between unions and other collective actors influenced the emergence of labor movements. The chapter shows how exclusionary corporatism provided Tunisian unions with organizational resources that strengthened their capacity for opposition, while inclusionary strategies and alliances with political elites weakened labor autonomy in Morocco.
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- Labor Unions and Democratic Unrest in North AfricaProtest and Resistance in Tunisia and Morocco, pp. 60 - 89Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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