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22%OFFPnina Werbner - The Making of an African Working Class: Politics, Law, and Cultural Protest in the Manual Workers´ Union of Botswana - 9780745334950 - V9780745334950
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The Making of an African Working Class: Politics, Law, and Cultural Protest in the Manual Workers´ Union of Botswana

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Description for The Making of an African Working Class: Politics, Law, and Cultural Protest in the Manual Workers´ Union of Botswana Paperback. Exploration of the formation of a distinctive working class identity among low-paid manual workers in Botswana Series: Anthropology, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMB; JFSC; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 232 x 17. Weight in Grams: 458.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Pluto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Anthropology, Culture and Society
Condition
New
Weight
458g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745334950
SKU
V9780745334950
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50

About Pnina Werbner
Pnina Werbner is Professor Emerita of Social Anthropology, Keele University. She is the author of The Making of an African Working Class (Pluto, 2014), The Manchester Migration Trilogy - The Migration Process (2002), Imagined Diasporas (2002) and Pilgrims of Love (2003).

Reviews for The Making of an African Working Class: Politics, Law, and Cultural Protest in the Manual Workers´ Union of Botswana
'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

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