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SUMMARY:The Reluctant Transformation: Modernization\, Religion\, and Human
  Capital in Nineteenth Century Egypt - Dr Mohamed Saleh (University of Tou
 louse)
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DESCRIPTION:Over the nineteenth century\, Egypt embarked on one of the wor
 ld’s earliest state-led modernization programs in production\, education
 \, and the army. The paper examines the impact of this ambitious program o
 n long-standing human capital differentials and occupational and education
 al segregation between Muslims\, Christians\, and Jews. It employ a new an
 d unique data source\, samples of the 1848 and 1868 Egyptian censuses digi
 tized from the original manuscript forms\, to examine this question. Overa
 ll\, occupational and educational segregation was not attenuated by modern
 ization\, both because the traditional institutions in production and educ
 ation were still the major routes for skill-acquisition\, and because the 
 new routes for mobility that modernization created were themselves segrega
 ted.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 5\, Faculty of History
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