Agro-industrial Labour in Kenya
Cut Flower Farms and Migrant Workers’ Settlements
Authors: Kuiper, Gerda
Free Preview- Provides one of the first detailed studies of a labor-intensive agricultural farm on the African continent
- Connects agro-industrial labor questions to conversations in gender studies, social networks, and translocality
- Contributes to an on-going public debate on labor conditions on Naivasha flower farms, which together employ tens of thousands of workers
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- About this book
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This ethnography analyses labour relations within the export-oriented cut flower industry at Lake Naivasha in Kenya. Though this agro-industry has attracted critical attention from journalists and non-governmental organizations, this book is the first comprehensive, social scientific analysis of the industry’s labour arrangements and production processes. Gerda Kuiper here interprets the work on the farms as ‘agro-industrial labour’: a labour system characterized by high levels of discipline and a strict rhythm of work, due to the demands posed by a highly perishable agricultural product. This framework enables the author to draw on insights from a wide range of anthropological and sociological studies on (agro-)industrial wage labour around the globe. This mixed-methods approach, deployed alongside rich ethnographic detail, allows the author to center the flower farm workers in her analysis.
- About the authors
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Gerda Kuiper, Ph.D., is a cultural anthropologist with a regional focus on Eastern Africa, a thematic focus on economic anthropology and globalization, and a strong interdisciplinary commitment.
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-33
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Naivasha’s History: From Livestock to Flowers
Pages 35-84
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Coming to Naivasha: Finding a Place to Stay and a Place to Work
Pages 85-125
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Inside the Farms: Rhythms and Hierarchies
Pages 127-182
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Workers’ Settlements: In Search of Order
Pages 183-237
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Agro-industrial Labour in Kenya
- Book Subtitle
- Cut Flower Farms and Migrant Workers’ Settlements
- Authors
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- Gerda Kuiper
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-18046-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-18046-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-18045-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XV, 284
- Number of Illustrations
- 18 illustrations in colour
- Topics
