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Title:The Professions in Africa: A Case Study of the Engineering Profession in Kenya
Author:Bennell, PaulISNI
Year:1983
Periodical:Development and Change
Volume:14
Issue:1
Period:January
Pages:61-81
Language:English
Geographic term:Kenya
Subjects:engineers
Labor and Employment
External link:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.1983.tb00145.x
Abstract:While generalisations about the role of engineering manpower in Africa abound, few of them have been substantiated by detailed empirical studies of the formation and deployment of this manpower. The present article considers one of the most important factors which shaped the emergence of a local engineering profession in Kenya during the late colonial period and the consolidation of this occupational stratum since independence. A brief review of the treatment of the professions by the most important theories of occupational stratification provides a theoretical framework within which the empirical analysis of the engineering profession in Kenya is situated. Notes.
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