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It 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.

Sociology of work --- Community organization --- Employers and workers organisations --- Botswana --- Labor unions --- Working class --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- Industrial unions --- Labor, Organized --- Labor organizations --- Organized labor --- Trade-unions --- Unions, Labor --- Unions, Trade --- Working-men's associations --- Labor movement --- Societies --- Central labor councils --- Guilds --- Syndicalism --- History --- Employment --- National Amalgamated Local & Central Government & Parastatal Manual Workers Union. --- NALCGPMWU --- National Amalgamated Local and Central Government, Parastatal Manual Workers Union --- Botsvana --- GOB --- Republic of Botswana --- Lefatshe la Botswana --- Republiek van Botswana --- Botsuana --- Republica de Botsuana --- Botsouana --- Botsvana Respublikası --- Батсвана --- Batsvana --- Рэспубліка Батсвана --- Rėspublika Batsvana --- Bocvana --- Republika Bocvana --- Ботсвана --- Botswanská republika --- Repaboliki ya Botswana --- Gweriniaeth Botswana --- Republikken Botswana --- Republik Botsuana --- Botswana Vabariik --- Μποτσουάνα --- Δημοκρατία της Μποτσουάνας --- Dēmokratia tēs Botsouanas --- Bocvano --- Respubliko Bocvano --- Botswanako Errepublika --- République du Botswana --- Republik Botswana --- Lýðveldið Botsvana --- Repubblica del Botswana --- Jamhuri ya Botswana --- Botsvanas Republika --- Botsvanos Respublika --- Боцвана --- Република Боцвана --- Republiek Botswana --- ボツワナ --- Botsuwana --- Republika Botswany --- República do Botswana --- República do Botsuana --- Республика Ботсвана --- Respublika Botsvana --- Botswanan tasavalta --- Republiken Botswana --- Republika ng Botswana --- Botsvana Cumhuriyeti --- Республіка Ботсвана --- Cộng hoà Botswana --- 博茨瓦纳 --- Bociwana --- Bechuanaland Protectorate --- Social conditions. --- Politics and government. --- E-books --- Strikes and lockouts --- History. --- Combinations of labor --- Lockouts --- Work stoppages --- Direct action --- Labor disputes --- Strikebreakers --- Law / Labor & Employment --- Law --- Acts, Legislative --- Enactments, Legislative --- Laws (Statutes) --- Legislative acts --- Legislative enactments --- Jurisprudence --- Legislation