Harry Pettit
The Labor of Hope: Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt
The Labor of Hope: Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt
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The Labor of Hope explores the struggles of educated but underemployed men in Egypt as they seek fulfilling employment, meaningful relationships, and secure family life. It reveals the lived contradiction at the heart of capitalist systems, where expansive dreams encourage precarious lives. Through education, migration, consumption, and prayer, individuals cultivate distraction and hope for future mobility, placing responsibility on the individual rather than structural issues in Egypt's economy.
Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 14 November 2023
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Technological advancements, expanding education, and unfettered capitalism have spurred many around the world to aspire to better lives, even as declines in employment and widening inequality push more and more people into insecurity and hardship. In Egypt, a generation of young men desires fulfilling employment, meaningful relationships, and secure family life, yet finds few paths to achieve this.
The Labor of Hope follows these educated but underemployed men as they struggle to establish careers and build satisfying lives. In so doing, this book reveals the lived contradiction at the heart of capitalist systems—the expansive dreams they encourage and the precarious lives they produce.
Harry Pettit follows young men as they engage a booming training, recruitment, and entrepreneurship industry that sells the cruel meritocratic promise that a good life is realizable for all. He considers the various ways individuals cultivate distraction and hope for future mobility: education, migration, consumption, and prayer. These hope-filled practices are a form of emotional labor for young men, placing responsibility on the individual rather than structural issues in Egypt's economy. Illuminating this emotional labor, Pettit shows how the capitalist economy continues to capture the attention of the very people harmed by it.
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781503636538
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