Agro-industrial Labour in Kenya Cut Flower Farms and Migrant Workers' Settlements /

• Main Author: Kuiper, Gerda (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Ethnology.; Ethnography.; Industrial sociology.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Women.; Social Anthropology.; Sociology of Work.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Women's Studies.

'Gerda Kuiper has done a great service to anthropology and African studies by writing a book on the important but understudied global flower industry of Naivasha, Kenya. This will be a valued resource for courses in African studies, economic anthropology, and development studies.' -Peter D...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Naivasha's History: From Livestock to Flowers
• 3. Coming to Naivasha: Finding a Place to Stay and a Place to Work
• 4. Inside the Farms: Rhythms and Hierarchies
• 5. Workers' Settlements: In Search of Order
• 6. Building a Future: Preparing to Go 'Home'
• 7. Conclusion.