The making of an African working class : politics, law, and cultural protest in the Manual Workers' Union of Botswana / / Pnina Werbner

• Autore: Werbner Pnina
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Pluto Press, , 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.562096883
• Soggetto topico: Strikes and lockouts - Botswana; Labor unions - Botswana - History; Working class - Botswana - History
• Soggetto geografico: Botswana Politics and government; Botswana Social conditions
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The making of an African working class
• ISBN: 1-78371-178-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910436252503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Anthropology, culture and society.