02846nam 2200577 450 991043625250332120230120042344.01-78371-178-7(CKB)3710000000185858(EBL)3386777(SSID)ssj0001336458(PQKBManifestationID)11792296(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001336458(PQKBWorkID)11303185(PQKB)10800090(MiAaPQ)EBC3386777(MiAaPQ)EBC7120118(EXLCZ)99371000000018585820180605d2014 uy 0engurun#---auuuutxtccrThe making of an African working class politics, law, and cultural protest in the Manual Workers' Union of Botswana /Pnina WerbnerLondon :Pluto Press,2014.1 online resource (320 p.)Anthropology, culture, and societyDescription based upon print version of record.0-7453-3495-4 0-7453-3496-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Anthropology, culture and society.Strikes and lockoutsBotswanaLabor unionsBotswanaHistoryWorking classBotswanaHistoryBotswanaPolitics and governmentBotswanaSocial conditionsStrikes and lockoutsLabor unionsHistory.Working classHistory.305.562096883Werbner Pnina306809MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910436252503321The making of an African working class1945215UNINA