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Making of an African working class : politics, law, and cultural protest in the Manual Workers' Union of Botswana

Title
Making of an African working class : politics, law, and cultural protest in the Manual Workers' Union of Botswana / Pnina Werbner.
Author
Werbner, Pnina
Publication
  • London : Pluto Press, 2014.
  • ©2014

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Description
xiii, 306 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Anthropology, culture, and society
Uniform Title
Anthropology, culture, and society.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-293) and index.
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.
Call Number
Sc E 14-1564
ISBN
  • 0745334962
  • 9780745334967
  • 9780745334950 (paperback)
  • 0745334954 (paperback)
OCLC
884296442
Author
Werbner, Pnina, author.
Title
Making of an African working class : politics, law, and cultural protest in the Manual Workers' Union of Botswana / Pnina Werbner.
Publisher
London : Pluto Press, 2014.
Copyright Date
©2014
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Anthropology, culture, and society
Anthropology, culture, and society.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-293) and index.
Research Call Number
Sc E 14-1564
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