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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Werbner, Pnina, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Pluto Press 2014.
Colección:Anthropology, culture and society.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.