Rebel populism Revolution and loss among Syrian labourers in Beirut [#492652]

Philip Proudfoot, "Rebel populism: Revolution and loss among Syrian labourers in Beirut"
English | ISBN: 1526158108 | 2022 | 232 pages | PDF | 17 MB
Workers from the Syrian diaspora have maintained a presence in Lebanon for decades, building multimillion-dollar apartment complexes, toiling for backbreaking hours in grocery stores. From the mid-2000s, liberalising reforms saw accelerating levels of poverty among workers, often paid as low as $20 per day. Instead of 'opportunity', workers faced the prospect of indefinite economic exile, the unending drudgery of hard labour, and a constant struggle to make ends meet.