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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:
Pluto Press,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
xiii, 306 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Subject:
National Amalgamated Local & Central Government & Parastatal Manual Workers Union.
Labor unions--Botswana--History.
Working class--Botswana--History.
Botswana--Social conditions.
Botswana--Politics and government.
Strikes and lockouts--Botswana.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-293) and index.
Contents:
Concluding remarks : class identity, dignity and the agency of labour in Botswana. 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.
Series:
Anthropology, culture, and society
ISBN:
0745334954 (paperback)
9780745334950 (paperback)
9780745334967
0745334962
OCLC:
(OCoLC)884296442
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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