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Autore |
Werbner Pnina |
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Titolo |
The making of an African working class : politics, law, and cultural protest in the Manual Workers' Union of Botswana / / Pnina Werbner |
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London : , : Pluto Press, , 2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Collana |
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Anthropology, culture, and society |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Strikes and lockouts - Botswana |
Labor unions - Botswana - History |
Working class - Botswana - History |
Botswana Politics and government |
Botswana Social conditions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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