LEADER 02256nam 22003733a 450 001 9910633952703321 005 20240912175743.0 010 $a9781783711796 010 $a1783711795 035 $a(CKB)4100000005468703 035 $a(ScCtBLL)af042e58-8021-4a8e-a052-d79431e9715d 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7120118 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000005468703 100 $a20211214i20142021 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe Making of an African Working Class : $ePolitics, Law, and Cultural Protest in the Manual Workers' Union of Botswana /$fPnina Werbner 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cPluto Press,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource 330 $aIt is now 50 years since E.P. Thompson published his classic, The Making of the English Working Class. The Making of an African Working Class follows Thompson in exploring the formation of working class identity among low-paid African workers. In arguing for a radical public anthropology of worker identity, the book seeks to analyse the cultural, legal, ideological and experiential dimensions of labour activism often neglected in other labour studies. Pnina Werbner shows that by fusing cosmopolitan and local popular cultural forms of protest, unionists have created a distinctive, vernacular way of being a worker in Botswana: one that does not deny workers' roots at home or in the countryside, while being cognisant of a wider world of cosmopolitan labour rights. The assertion of working class dignity, honour and respect, Pnina argues, is a powerful motivating force for manual workers. Against legal-sceptical approaches, The Making of an African Working Class argues that in challenging the government - their employer - in court, manual workers' protests and mobilisation are deeply embedded in ethics, social justice and the law. 606 $aLaw / Labor & Employment$2bisacsh 606 $aLaw 615 7$aLaw / Labor & Employment 615 0$aLaw 700 $aWerbner$b Pnina$0306809 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910633952703321 996 $aThe making of an African working class$91945215 997 $aUNINA