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The making of an African working class : politics, law, and cultural protest in the Manual Workers' Union of Botswana / Pnina Werbner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Werbner, Pnina, author.
- Series:
- Anthropology, culture and society.
- Anthropology, culture, and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Amalgamated Local & Central Government & Parastatal Manual Workers Union.
- Strikes and lockouts--Botswana.
- Strikes and lockouts.
- Labor unions--Botswana--History.
- Labor unions.
- Working class--Botswana--History.
- Working class.
- Botswana--Politics and government.
- Botswana.
- Botswana--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Pluto Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Exploration of the formation of a distinctive working class identity among low-paid manual workers in Botswana
- Contents:
- Introduction
- A labour elite? Strategising women and the spectre of unemployment
- Women, leadership and the dignity of labour
- Lekgotla la Babereki, the Court of the Workers : the trade union as public forum
- 'Legitimate expectations' : ethics, law and labour justice in the 1991 strike
- The politics of infiltration : factionalism and party politics
- This land is our land : the 2005 Manual Workers' Union grand tour of Botswana
- Solidarity forever : mobilising the trade union movement in prayer and protest
- Winning against the odds : speaking truth to power and dilemmas of charismatic leadership
- 'The mother of all strikes' : popular protest culture and vernacular cosmopolitanism in the public service unions' strike, 2011
- The political and moral economy of the 2011 strike : public rhetoric, conflict and policy
- Legal mobilisation, legal scepticism and the politics of public sector unions
- Concluding remarks : class identity, dignity and the agency of labour in Botswana.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 22, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-78371-178-7
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