A Historical Mapping of Lebanese Organized Labor: Tracing trends, actors, and dynamics

The paper provides a contextualized and easily accessible history of Lebanese organized labor from the mandate period up to this day. The paper is divided into six main sections, each corresponding to a distinct phase of the historical development of Lebanese organized labor. In each section, the paper identifies the main actors, demands, events, urgencies, and constraints shaping the articulation and the trajectories of (de/) mobilization of workers’ collective agency and organization, so as to provide a cumulative and genealogical overview of the changes, continuities, and peculiarities characterizing each phase. The paper builds for the most part on the piecemeal and dis-organic body of scholarship currently constituting the bulk of scholarly knowledge on Lebanese labor, in an attempt to provide a synthesis and an index thereof. In so doing, the paper aims at offering a directory and a ready-to-hand compendium for researchers, analysts, and practitioners interested in Lebanese labor, and possibly contribute to (re)ignite interest in this still widely under-researched topic. Read More at: https://civilsociety-centre.org/paper/historical-mapping-lebanese-organized-labor-tracing-trends-actors-and-dynamics Copyrights © 2019 Lebanon Support. All rights reserved.