TY - BOOK ID - 56800509 TI - The Making of an African Working Class : Politics, Law, and Cultural Protest in the Manual Workers' Union of Botswana PY - 2014 SN - 9780745334967 9780745334950 9781783711789 9781783711802 9781783711796 1783711787 0745334962 0745334954 1783711795 1783711809 PB - [s.l.] : Pluto Press, DB - UniCat KW - Sociology of work KW - Community organization KW - Employers and workers organisations KW - Botswana KW - Labor unions KW - Working class KW - Commons (Social order) KW - Labor and laboring classes KW - Laboring class KW - Labouring class KW - Working classes KW - Social classes KW - Labor KW - Industrial unions KW - Labor, Organized KW - Labor organizations KW - Organized labor KW - Trade-unions KW - Unions, Labor KW - Unions, Trade KW - Working-men's associations KW - Labor movement KW - Societies KW - Central labor councils KW - Guilds KW - Syndicalism KW - History KW - Employment KW - National Amalgamated Local & Central Government & Parastatal Manual Workers Union. KW - NALCGPMWU KW - National Amalgamated Local and Central Government, Parastatal Manual Workers Union KW - Botsvana KW - GOB KW - Republic of Botswana KW - Lefatshe la Botswana KW - Republiek van Botswana KW - Botsuana KW - Republica de Botsuana KW - Botsouana KW - Botsvana Respublikası KW - Батсвана KW - Batsvana KW - Рэспубліка Батсвана KW - Rėspublika Batsvana KW - Bocvana KW - Republika Bocvana KW - Ботсвана KW - Botswanská republika KW - Repaboliki ya Botswana KW - Gweriniaeth Botswana KW - Republikken Botswana KW - Republik Botsuana KW - Botswana Vabariik KW - Μποτσουάνα KW - Δημοκρατία της Μποτσουάνας KW - Dēmokratia tēs Botsouanas KW - Bocvano KW - Respubliko Bocvano KW - Botswanako Errepublika KW - République du Botswana KW - Republik Botswana KW - Lýðveldið Botsvana KW - Repubblica del Botswana KW - Jamhuri ya Botswana KW - Botsvanas Republika KW - Botsvanos Respublika KW - Боцвана KW - Република Боцвана KW - Republiek Botswana KW - ボツワナ KW - Botsuwana KW - Republika Botswany KW - República do Botswana KW - República do Botsuana KW - Республика Ботсвана KW - Respublika Botsvana KW - Botswanan tasavalta KW - Republiken Botswana KW - Republika ng Botswana KW - Botsvana Cumhuriyeti KW - Республіка Ботсвана KW - Cộng hoà Botswana KW - 博茨瓦纳 KW - Bociwana KW - Bechuanaland Protectorate KW - Social conditions. KW - Politics and government. KW - E-books KW - Strikes and lockouts KW - History. KW - Combinations of labor KW - Lockouts KW - Work stoppages KW - Direct action KW - Labor disputes KW - Strikebreakers KW - Law / Labor & Employment KW - Law KW - Acts, Legislative KW - Enactments, Legislative KW - Laws (Statutes) KW - Legislative acts KW - Legislative enactments KW - Jurisprudence KW - Legislation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:56800509 AB - 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. ER -