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  • Labor and Capitalism in Modern Egypt: Wages in a Sugar Factory, 1847-1904

    HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    This paper contributes to the global history of capitalism in rural contexts, examining the impact of agro-industrial mechanization on wages in African rural communities through a case study of a sugar factory in 19th-century Egypt. Utilizing approximately fifty wage registers from the Rawda factory in Middle Egypt, dating from 1849 to 1903 and now preserved […]