LEADER 04540nam 22006735 450 001 9910337716803321 005 20240312141103.0 010 $a9783030180461 010 $a3030180468 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-18046-1 035 $a(CKB)4100000008280429 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5779977 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-18046-1 035 $a(Perlego)3495118 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008280429 100 $a20190521d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAgro-industrial Labour in Kenya $eCut Flower Farms and Migrant Workers' Settlements /$fby Gerda Kuiper 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (293 pages) $cillustrations 311 08$a9783030180454 311 08$a303018045X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. 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. 330 $a'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. Little, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and Director of Global Development Studies, Emory University, USA 'In this rich and detailed ethnography, Kuiper seeks to situate labor in the cut flower industry within a wider social and historical field in which the environment, gender, colonialism, and broader political economic factors all come to matter.' -Sarah Besky, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International and Public Affairs, Brown University, USA 'Kuiper has provided us with a superbly crafted ethnography of the migrant farm workers whose labour the flower farms of Naivasha depend upon. This is a classic of its genre, and a timely reminder ofboth the resilience and fragility of Kenya's labour market.' -David M. Anderson, Professor of African History, University of Warwick, UK 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. 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. 606 $aEthnology 606 $aIndustrial sociology 606 $aSocial structure 606 $aEquality 606 $aFeminism 606 $aFeminist theory 606 $aSociocultural Anthropology 606 $aEthnography 606 $aSociology of Work 606 $aSocial Structure 606 $aFeminism and Feminist Theory 615 0$aEthnology. 615 0$aIndustrial sociology. 615 0$aSocial structure. 615 0$aEquality. 615 0$aFeminism. 615 0$aFeminist theory. 615 14$aSociocultural Anthropology. 615 24$aEthnography. 615 24$aSociology of Work. 615 24$aSocial Structure. 615 24$aFeminism and Feminist Theory. 676 $a331.763 676 $a331.761635966 700 $aKuiper$b Gerda$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01063710 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910337716803321 996 $aAgro-industrial Labour in Kenya$92534108 997 $aUNINA