OPPORTUNITIES, ORGANIZATIONS, AND IDEAS: ISLAMISTS AND WORKERS IN TUNISIA AND ALGERIA

Abstract

Since the late 1970s, a voluminous body of scholarship has examined the socio-economic roots of Islamist politics. Much of this literature presents Islamist movements as angry responses to corrupt authoritarian regimes and broken moral economies in the post-oil boom era. In this view, Islam offers a culturally authentic alternative to a disinherited and disenfranchised generation.