The Making of an African Working Class Politics, Law, and Cultural Protest in the Manual Workers Union of Botswana

Exploration of the formation of a distinctive working class identity among low-paid manual workers in Botswana

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Werbner, Pnina
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Pluto Press 2014, 2014
Series:Anthropology, culture and society
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Series Preface; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 A Labour Elite? Strategising Women and the Spectre of Unemployment; 3 Women, Leadership and the Dignity of Labour; 4 Lekgotla la Babereki, the Court of the Workers: The Trade Union as Public Forum; 5 'Legitimate Expectations': Ethics, Law and Labour Justice in the 1991 Strike; 6 The Politics of Infiltration: Factionalism and Party Politics; 7 This Land Is Our Land: The 2005 Manual Workers' Union Grand Tour of Botswana 
505 0 |a 8 Solidarity Forever: Mobilising the Trade Union Movement in Prayer and Protest9 Winning Against the Odds: Speaking Truth to Power and Dilemmas of Charismatic Leadership; 10 'The Mother of All Strikes': Popular Protest Culture and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism in the Public Service Unions' Strike, 2011; 11 The Political and Moral Economy of the 2011 Strike: Public Rhetoric, Conflict and Policy; 12 Legal Mobilisation, Legal Scepticism and the Politics of Public Sector Unions; 13 Concluding Remarks: Class Identity, Dignity and the Agency of Labour in Botswana 
505 0 |a Appendix Further Grievance Cases Settled by Lilian MaMosheNotes; References; Index 
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