Abstract
ABSTRACT The reformation of the Arab state in neoliberal times has produced the narratives of the withdrawing versus intervening state. This article complicates these binary notions by taking seriously both top-down and bottom-up state practices in the realm of employment in Tunisia. Drawing on a qualitative analysis of precarious workers’ collective actions, it shows that the precarization of labour relations was structured by state actors’ arbitrary acts for and against a new state image in a neoliberal direction before and after the Uprising. Importantly, bottom-up mobilizations have criticized, challenged and attempted to correct these top-down state practices by performing their image of the state as a coherent entity that is bound by laws and protects the right to decent work.
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