{"product_id":"making-of-an-african-working-class","title":"Making of an African Working Class","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is now 50 years since E.P. Thompson published his classic, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Making of the English Working Class.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Making of an African Working Class\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePnina 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAgainst legal-sceptical approaches, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Making of an African Working Class\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Great Jones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39308237668437,"sku":"9780745334967","price":460.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/0053\/8453\/products\/download-12_3de014f9-ae5e-4986-9732-0217d143ca9b.jpg?v=1617198751","url":"https:\/\/vikas-test.myshopify.com\/products\/making-of-an-african-working-class","provider":"Vikas Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}