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050  4 $a HD8806 A5 N389 2014
100 1  $a Werbner, Pnina, $e author.
245 10 $a Making of an African working class : $b politics, law, and cultural protest in the Manual Workers' Union of Botswana / $c Pnina Werbner.
264  1 $a London : $b Pluto Press, $c 2014.
300    $a xiii, 306 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 23 cm
490 1  $a Anthropology, culture, and society
504    $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-293) and index.
505 00 $t Concluding remarks : class identity, dignity and the agency of labour in Botswana. $t A labour elite? Strategising women and the spectre of unemployment -- $t Women, leadership and the dignity of labour -- $t Lekgotla la Babereki, the Court of the Workers : the trade union as public forum -- $t 'Legitimate expectations' : ethics, law and labour justice in the 1991 strike -- $t The politics of infiltration : factionalism and party politics -- $t This land is our land : the 2005 Manual Workers' Union grand tour of Botswana -- $t Solidarity forever : mobilising the trade union movement in prayer and protest -- $t Winning against the odds : speaking truth to power and dilemmas of charismatic leadership -- $t 'The mother of all strikes' : popular protest culture and vernacular cosmopolitanism in the public service unions' strike, 2011 -- $t The political and moral economy of the 2011 strike : public rhetoric, conflict and policy -- $t Legal mobilisation, legal scepticism and the politics of public sector unions -- $t Concluding remarks : class identity, dignity and the agency of labour in Botswana.
610 20 $a National Amalgamated Local & Central Government & Parastatal Manual Workers Union.
650  0 $a Labor unions $z Botswana $x History.
650  0 $a Working class $z Botswana $x History.
651  0 $a Botswana $x Social conditions.
651  0 $a Botswana $x Politics and government.
650  0 $a Strikes and lockouts $z Botswana.
830  0 $a Anthropology, culture, and society.
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