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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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Details
- 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 societyAnthropology, culture, and society.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-293) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 14-1564