Making of an African Working Class

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).

• List of FiguresList of AbbreviationsSeries PrefacePreface 1. Introduction 2. A Labour Elite? Strategising Women and the Spectre of Unemployment3. Women, Leadership and the Dignity of Labour4. Lekgotla la Babereki, the Court of the Workers: The Trade Union as Public Forum5. 'Legitimate Expectations': Ethics, Law and Labour Justice in the 1991 Strike6. The Politics of Infiltration: Factionalism and Party Politics7. This Land Is Our Land: The 2005 Manual Workers' Union Grand Tour of Botswana8. 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, 201111. The Political and Moral Economy of the 2011 Strike: Public Rhetoric, Conflict and Policy12. Legal Mobilisation, Legal Scepticism and the Politics of Public Sector Unions13. Concluding Remarks: Class Identity, Dignity and the Agency of Labour in Botswana AppendixNotesReferencesIndex

'Shows how dignity, justice and morality underlay the resurgence of the Manual Workers' Union. A formidable achievement'