Street Politics: Poor People's Movements in Iran
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The story of a grassroots political movement that flourished throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Choice Focusing on the immediate prerevolutionary period and the first decade of the Islamic Republic, Bayat discusses the economic and political strategies of ‘ordinary´ [Iranian] people, mainly in Tehran. . . . He demonstrates that, for these people at least, the populist revolution did not bring about the changes that they needed or wanted.
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsChronology of Pre- and Postrevolution Events1The Quiet Encroachment of the Ordinary12Mapping Out the "New Poor"233The Disfranchised and the Islamic Revolution: "Our Revolution and Theirs"354The Housing Rebels: The Occupation of Homes and Hotels, 1979-1981595Back-Street Politics: Squatters and the State756Workless Revolutionaries: The Movement of the Unemployed1097Street Rebels: The Politics of Street Vending1338Grassroots and State Power: The Promise and Perils of Quiet Encroachment157Notes167Bibliography201Glossary217Index221
