| dc.creator | Pack, Howard | |
| dc.date | 2011-04-05T11:24:56Z | |
| dc.date | 2011-04-05T11:24:56Z | |
| dc.date | 1972 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-10T12:54:44Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-11-10T12:54:44Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 10-11-12 | |
| dc.identifier | Pack, Howard. (1972) Employment and productivity in Kenyan manufacturing. Discussion Paper 149, Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.identifier | http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/506 | |
| dc.identifier | 322197 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/handle/123456789/1860 | |
| dc.description | This paper reports the results of an extensive set of interviews
with Kenyan manufacturers. The question to which these interviews were
addressed is the possibility of absorbing larger numbers of workers in the
manufacturing sector. A number of rather surprising patterns appeared.
First, existing manufacturing enterprises are relatively labour intensive;
rarely do they exhibit the mechanization levels of the developed countries.
Second, productivity of labour has risen rapidly not as a result of increasing
levels of capital per worker but as the outcome of reorganisation, simple
innovations and increasing utilization of capacity. These findings suggest
that at least in the near future, say five to ten years, though manufacturing
employment may grow, it will certainly grow more slowly than output. | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.relation | Discussion Papers;149 | |
| dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | |
| dc.rights | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.subject | Work and Labour | |
| dc.title | Employment and productivity in Kenyan manufacturing | |
| dc.type | Series paper (non-IDS) | |
