
The Making of an African Working Class
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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.
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'Shows how dignity, justice and morality underlay the resurgence of the Manual Workers' Union. A formidable achievement' -- Professor Robin Cohen, Department of International Development, University of Oxford '[A] masterful ethnography ... Werbner has produced a theoretically sophisticated and thoroughly researched account of the uneven rise ofworking-class consciousness and activism in Botswana' -- American EthnologistMore details
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Preface
1. Introduction
2. A Labour Elite? Strategising Women and the Spectre of Unemployment
3. Women, Leadership and the Dignity of Labour
4. Lekgotla la Babereki, the Court of the Workers: The Trade Union as Public Forum
5. 'Legitimate Expectations': Ethics, Law 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 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': Popular Protest Culture and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism in the Public Service Unions' Strike, 2011
11. The Political and Moral Economy of the 2011 Strike: Public Rhetoric, Conflict and Policy
12. Legal Mobilisation, Legal Scepticism and the Politics of Public Sector Unions
13. Concluding Remarks: Class Identity, Dignity and the Agency of Labour in Botswana
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