The Making of an African Working Class : : Politics, Law, and Cultural Protest in the Manual Workers' Union of Botswana / / Pnina Werbner.

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 i...

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