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

Informationen zum Autor Pnina Werbner is Professor Emerita of Social Anthropology, Keele University. She is the author of The Making of an African Working Class (Pluto, 2014), The Manchester Migration Trilogy - The Migration Process (2002), Imagined Diasporas (2002) and Pilgrims of Love (2003). Klappentext A new edition of the successful civil liberties guide, now updated to cover the Human Rights Act. It is the kind of book that everyone needs from time to time. Zusammenfassung Exploration of the formation of a distinctive working class identity among low-paid manual workers in Botswana Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1 Introduction 2 The Dignity of Labour: Women! Agency and Leadership 3 A Labour Elite? Strategising Women and the Spectre of Unemployment 4 The Kgotla ya Babereki ('Court' of the Workers): The Union as Public Forum 5 Legitimate Expections': Ethics 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 8 Solidarity Forever: Mobilising the Botswana Trade Union Movement in Prayer and Protest 9 Winning Against the Odds: Speaking Truth to Power and Dilemmas of Charismatic Leadership 10 The 'Mother of All Strikes': Vernacular Cosmopolitanism and Popular Culture! 2011 11 The Political and Moral Economy of the Strike 12 Conclusion: Legal Mobilisation! Political Protest and Cosmopolitan Virtue Concluding Remarks: Class Identity! Dignity and the Agency of Labour in Botswana Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Pnina Werbner, Werbner Pnina
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.2014
• EAN: 9780745334967
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3496-7
• No. of pages: 306
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society; Anthropology, Culture and Soci; Anthropology, Culture and Society; Anthropology, Culture and Soci
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Botswana, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Sociology: work & labour, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General