Between shamba and factory: preliminary results from a study of oscillatory labour migration in Kenya

dc.creator	Tostensen, Arne
dc.date	2011-11-28T14:48:00Z
dc.date	2011-11-28T14:48:00Z
dc.date	1986-04
dc.date.accessioned	2013-01-04T17:02:22Z
dc.date.available	2013-01-04T17:02:22Z
dc.date.issued	04-01-13
dc.identifier	Tostensen, Arne (1986) Between shamba and factory: preliminary results from a study of oscillatory labour migration in Kenya. Working paper no. 423, Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi
dc.identifier	http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/1285
dc.identifier	316002
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11295/7718
dc.description	Oscillatory labour migration is shown to predominate the labour market in Kenya, involving the periodic-physical movement by workers between town and the rural areas where their families stay and cultivate a shamba. This structure means that part of the reproduction cost of the labourer and his family is borne by non capitalist agriculture which in actual fact thus subsidises heavily industrial wages. An attempt is made to quantify the degree of subsidisation.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi
dc.relation	Working Paper.;423
dc.rights	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
dc.rights	Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi
dc.subject	Migration
dc.subject	Work and Labour
dc.title	Between shamba and factory: preliminary results from a study of oscillatory labour migration in Kenya
dc.type	Series paper (non-IDS)