Special: What Happened at the Gandour Factories in 1972?

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PRESENTER

Micha Tobia

ORIGINAL CITY 

Beirut

Original Date

February 23, 2020

Description

The November 1972 strike at the Gandour biscuits and chocolate factory are considered to be the culmination of workers' struggles and the power of the Lebanese trade unions. But what happened then? And did the movement succeed?

Sources & Future References

  • Atallah, N. February 15, 2020. 'Lebanese protests : the missing trade unions.' Le Commerce du Levant.

  • Bou Khater, L. 2015. 'Public sector mobilisation despite a dormant workers’ movement' 

  • Khalaf, S. 2002. ’Civil and Uncivil violence in Lebanon’

  • Traboulsi, F. 2012. "A History of Modern Lebanon"

  • Tufaro, R. ’Historical Mapping of Lebanese Organized Labor’

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