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

This mixed-methods approach, deployed alongside rich ethnographic detail, allows the author to center the flower farm workers in her analysis. 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kuiper, Gerda
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2019, 2019
Edition:1st ed. 2019
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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