Social achievements

03Social achievements

Ending feudalism

• Ending feudalism was the third principle of the revolution, and to that end it issued the First Agricultural Reform Law on 9 September 1952.
• The law stated that no person may own more than 200 feddans of agricultural land, and that he may additionally dispose of an area not exceeding 100 feddans to his children.
• It provided that the confiscated land be distributed to small peasants, so that each holds a small property of not less than two feddans and not more than five.
• Several laws followed, ending with the limit of individual agricultural ownership set at fifty feddans.

Social justice

• Social justice was the fourth principle, and in its way:
• Generalising free education at every stage, including university.
• Issuing social insurance and pensions laws for employees and workers.
• Fixing working hours at seven hours a day.
• Involving workers in the boards of companies and factories and allocating them a share of company profits.
• Paying attention to women and granting them the right to stand for election and to vote.