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Title: | Women and the Labour Process in Kenya since Independence |
Author: | Zeleza, Tiyambe |
Year: | 1988 |
Periodical: | Transafrican Journal of History |
Volume: | 17 |
Pages: | 69-107 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Kenya |
Subjects: | women's employment women's work Women's Issues Labor and Employment History and Exploration Economics and Trade economics |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/24328692 |
Abstract: | All too often, students of labour tend to discuss labour only in the context of the labour market. At a stroke other forms of labour outside market relations are rendered invisible. Since much of women's work lies outside the market, the importance of women's labour is underestimated and marginalized. This paper not only chronicles the development of women's labour in the Kenyan economy since independence, but also challenges the methodological standards, operational definitions and theoretical paradigms that underlie conventional labour studies. It is divided into four parts. First, it examines the growth and sectoral distribution of women's labour in the formal sector. Second, it looks at women's wages and conditions of work in this sector. Third, the participation of women in the informal sector is analysed. Finally, the paper focuses on the women's labour process in household production. App., note, ref. |