State-society relations have seen significant upheaval in Egypt in the wake of the Arab uprisings of 2011. This paper examines the struggle over the labor movement and the status of minority groups, specifically the Coptic Orthodox minority and the Nubian community. In each of these issue areas, I argue that changes at the regime level since 2011 have had considerable effects on the processes of change that have been unleashed with the uprising of 2011, but that these processes are specific to state–society relations within these issue areas and not reducible to regime-level outcomes. Across these otherwise unrelated issue areas I argue that parallel sets of dynamics have been at work, owing to institutional legacies from the pre-2011 period. In the cases of the workers’ movements and the Coptic Orthodox minority, a legacy of neocorporatism has meant that these dynamics have been marked by 1) the struggle for control over the institutional legacies of the Mubarak period, and 2) a parallel mobilization of movements within each population that vie to break the respective elite monopoly over group representation vis-à-vis the state. Within the case of the Nubian community, on the other hand, low levels of incorporation and institutionalization did not prevent the community from making an unexepected breakthrough in the highly corporatist constitutional revision process of 2013.