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1 online resource. |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Anthropology, culture and society |
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Anthropology, culture, and society.
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| Note |
Print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List 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. |
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8 Solidarity Forever: Mobilising the Trade Union Movement in Prayer and Protest9 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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Appendix Further Grievance Cases Settled by Lilian MaMosheNotes; References; Index. |
| Summary |
Exploration of the formation of a distinctive working class identity among low-paid manual workers in Botswana. |
| Subject |
National Amalgamated Local & Central Government & Parastatal Manual Workers Union.
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National Amalgamated Local & Central Government & Parastatal Manual Workers Union. (OCoLC)fst01927696
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Labor unions -- Botswana -- History.
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Working class -- Botswana -- History.
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Botswana -- Social conditions.
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Botswana -- Politics and government.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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LAW -- Labor & Employment.
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Labor unions. (OCoLC)fst00990260
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Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
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Working class. (OCoLC)fst01180418
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Botswana. (OCoLC)fst01205793
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Labor unions Industry. -- Botswana -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Werbner, Pnina. Making of an African working class 9780745334967 |
| ISBN |
9781783711789 (electronic book) |
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1783711787 (electronic book) |
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9781783711796 (ePub electronic book) |
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1783711795 (ePub electronic book) |
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1783711809 (Kindle electronic book) |
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9781783711802 (Kindle electronic book) |
