Agro-Industrial Labour In Kenya: Cut Flower Farms And Migrant Workers’ Settlements

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.

• | Author: Gerda Kuiper
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: May 31, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 299 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 303018045X
• | ISBN-13: 9783030180454