Description
Book SynopsisExploration of the formation of a distinctive working class identity among low-paid manual workers in Botswana
Trade Review'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 Ethnologist
Table of ContentsList of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Series Preface
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
Appendix
Notes
References
Index
