<ul> <li> A ground-breaking ethnography of an export-orientated factory in Egypt.</li> <li> Examines the dynamic relationships between the emergent <em>Mubarak-bizniz </em>(business) elites and the local realities of the daily lives of their young educated and mixed-gender labor force.</li> <li> Power resistance individual identity and aspirations are explored through the articulations of class gender and religion in shop floor practices and management discourses.</li></ul>