International Firms And Labour In Kenya 1945 1970

Author : Alice Hoffenberg Amsden
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Industrial relations
ISBN : 9780714625812

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International Firms and Labour in Kenya: 1945-70 by Alice Hoffenberg Amsden Pdf

Study of the impact of multinational enterprise on labour relations in Kenya between 1945 and 1970 and the role played by the kenyan employers organization - describes racial discrimination prevalent prior to accession to independence, covers subsequent developments in respect of minimum wages, trade unions, collective bargaining, strike activity, etc., and comments on relevant labour legislation. ILO mentioned. Bibliography pp. 169 to 181 and references.

Author : Alice Amsden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136269035

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International Firms and Labour in Kenya 1945-1970 by Alice Amsden Pdf

First Published in 1971. This volume is an historical look at Kenyan international firms and labour, starting in 1945 and ending at the years of independence and the introduction of collective bargaining in 1967.

Author : Alice Hoffenberg Amsden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Corporations, Foreign
ISBN : OCLC:150647275

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International Firms and Labour in Kenya 1945-1970 by Alice Hoffenberg Amsden Pdf

Author : Godriver Wanga-Odhiambo
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498511643

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The Political Economy of Sugar Production in Colonial Kenya by Godriver Wanga-Odhiambo Pdf

This book describes the Asian agency in sugar production in colonial Nyanza and additionally examines the Asian initiative and the development of commercial cane farming in Central Nyanza. It provides a different perspective on the Asian initiative in agriculture by showing how Asians were involved in sugarcane farming and how production of sugar in colonial Nyanza was eventually made possible by Asian capital. This study relies mainly on primary sources, secondary sources, and oral interviews. The archival sources were derived from the Kenya National Archives. The primary materials included annual reports of the Department of Agriculture, District annual reports, Provincial reports, monthly intelligence reports, colonial officials’ correspondence, and correspondence from East Africa India National Congress. Oral interviews were also conducted to verify some information while the secondary sources were used to supplement thesources. This work is unique first due to its extensive use of archival sources, as most of these archival sources have not been used by other scholars in the field. Secondly, it deals with all parts of the sugar production process; it shows the connection to the current sugar situation in Kenya and also provides a framework in which to understand the persistent insufficiency in Kenya’s sugar industry. This workprovides an important contribution to Kenyan economic history.

Author : John P. Powelson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429727573

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A Select Bibliography On Economic Development by John P. Powelson Pdf

This bibliography of more than 2,000 titles contains both books and journal articles, primarily those published since 1970. Most of the entries are annotated. The material is classified according to forty-eight categories, and there is also a list of relevant titles for each major country in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Author : S. H. Fazan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857737847

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Colonial Kenya Observed by S. H. Fazan Pdf

The coast of East Africa was considered a strategically invaluable region for the establishment of trading ports, both for Arab and Persian merchants, long prior to invasion and conquest by Europeans. In the initial stages of the scramble for Africa in the 18th century, control of the area was an aspiration for every colonial nation in Europe - but it was not until 1895 that it was finally dominated by a sole power and proclaimed The Protectorate of British East Africa. In the early 20th century, the coast was brimming with vitality as immigrants, colonisers and missionaries from Arabia, India and Europe poured in to take advantage of growing commercial opportunities - including the prospect of enslaving millions of native Africans. The development of Kenya is an exceptional tale within the history of British rule - in perhaps no other colony did nationalistic feeling evolve in conditions of such extensive social and political change. In 1911, S.H. Fazan sailed to what later became the Republic of Kenya to work for the colonial government. Immersing himself in knowledge of traditional language and law, he recorded the vast changes to local culture that he encountered after decades of working with both the British administration and the Kenyan people. This work charts the sweeping tide of social change that occurred through his career with the clarity and insight that comes with a total intimacy of a country. His memoirs examine the fascinating complexity of interaction between the colonial and native courts, commercial land reform and the revolutionised dynamic of labour relations. By further unearthing the political tensions that climaxed with the Mau Mau Revolt of 1952-1960, this invaluable work on the European colonial period paints a comprehensive and revealing firsthand account for anyone with an interest in British and African history. Fazan's story provides a quite unparalleled view of colonial Africa and the conduct of Empire across half a century.

Author : Tabitha Kanogo
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1987-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821444467

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Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau, 1905–1963 by Tabitha Kanogo Pdf

This is a study of the genesis, evolution, adaptation and subordination of the Kikuyu squatter labourers, who comprised the majority of resident labourers on settler plantations and estates in the Rift Valley Province of the White Highlands. The story of the squatter presence in the White Highlands is essentially the story of the conflicts and contradictions that existed between two agrarian systems, the settler plantation economy and the squatter peasant option. Initially, the latter developed into a viable but much resented sub-system which operated within and, to some extent, in competition with settler agriculture. This study is largely concerned with the dynamics of the squatter presence in the White Highlands and with the initiative, self-assertion and resilience with which they faced their subordinate position as labourers. In their response to the machinations of the colonial system, the squatters were neither passive nor malleable but, on the contrary, actively resisted coercion and subordination as they struggled to carve out a living for themselves and their families.... It is a firm conviction of this study that Kikuyu squatters played a crucial role in the initial build-up of the events that led to the outbreak of the Mau Mau war. —from the introduction

Author : Tabitha Kanogo
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 9966463267

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Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau, 1905-63 by Tabitha Kanogo Pdf

Author : Robert L. Tignor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400873005

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Capitalism and Nationalism at the End of Empire by Robert L. Tignor Pdf

The two decades that followed World War II witnessed the end of the great European empires in Asia and Africa. Robert Tignor's new study of the decolonization experiences of Egypt, Nigeria, and Kenya elucidates the major factors that led to the transfer of power from British to African hands in these three territories. Employing a comparative method in order to explain the different decolonizing narratives in each territory, he argues that the different state policies toward the private business sector and foreign capital were the result of nationalist policies and attitudes and the influence of Cold War pressures on local events. Using business records as well as official government sources, the work highlights the economic aspects of decolonization and weighs the influence of nationalist movements, changes in metropolitan attitudes toward the empire, and shifts in the international balance of power in bringing about the transfer of authority. The author concludes that the business communities did not play decisive roles, adhering instead to their time-honored role of leaving political issues to colonial officials and their nationalist critics. Tignor also finds that the nationalist movements, far from being ineffective, largely realized the primary goals of nationalist leaders that had been articulated for many decades. Originally published in 1997. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Opoku Agyeman
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0739106201

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The Failure of Grassroots Pan-Africanism by Opoku Agyeman Pdf

A work of masterful scholarship and powerful feeling, The Failure of Grassroots Pan-Africanism traces the history of a Pan-Africanist inspired non-aligned trade union federation, the All-African Trade Union Federation (AATUF) set up in 1961. This thoroughly researched analysis establishes the multiple causes of the tragic failure of the AATUF to fulfill its mission

Author : J. D. Fage,Roland Anthony Oliver,Michael Crowder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1052 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : 0521224098

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The Cambridge History of Africa by J. D. Fage,Roland Anthony Oliver,Michael Crowder Pdf

The eighth and final volume of The Cambridge History of Africa covers the period 1940-75. It begins with a discussion of the role of the Second World War in the political decolonisation of Africa. Its terminal date of 1975 coincides with the retreat of Portugal, the last European colonial power in Africa, from its possessions and their accession to independence. The fifteen chapters which make up this volume examine on both a continental and regional scale the extent to which formal transfer of political power by the European colonial rulers also involved economic, social and cultural decolonisation. A major theme of the volume is the way the African successors to the colonial rulers dealt with their inheritance and how far they benefited particular economic groups and disadvantaged others. The contributors to this volume represent different disciplinary traditions and do not share a single theoretical perspective on the recent history of the continent, a subject that is still the occasion for passionate debate.

Author : Britha Mikkelsen
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9171061584

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Industrial Labour in Africa by Britha Mikkelsen Pdf

Author : G. Horne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230101043

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Mau Mau in Harlem? by G. Horne Pdf

Based on archival research on three continents, this book addresses the interpenetration of two closely related movements: the struggle against white supremacy and Jim Crow in the U.S., and the struggle against similar forces and for national liberation in Colonial Kenya.

Author : Jason Warner,Timothy M. Shaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137575746

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African Foreign Policies in International Institutions by Jason Warner,Timothy M. Shaw Pdf

This book is the first to exclusively consider the foreign policy tendencies of African states in international institutions. As an edited volume offering empirically based perspectives from a variety of scholars, this project disabuses the notion that Africa should be considered a "niche" interest in the field of foreign policy analysis. It asserts that the actions of the continent's states collectively serve as an important heuristic by which to interrogate and understand the foreign policies of other global states, and are not simply "anomalously" extant entities whose actions should be studied only insofar as they deviate from predictions based on the experiences of Western or other non-African states.

Author : Miles Kahler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400855582

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Decolonization in Britain and France by Miles Kahler Pdf

Professor Kahler focuses on organizations below the state, investigating party competition and sensitivity to political change produced by the characteristics of commercial firms. In addition, he explores transmission of external shocks to the domestic polity by the state itself and the domestic politics of settler societies under external threat. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.