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Title:The study of the African 'sub-proletariat': a review article
Author:Sandbrook, Richard
Year:1977
Periodical:Manpower and Unemployment Research in Africa
Volume:10
Issue:1
Pages:91-105
Language:English
Geographic term:Subsaharan Africa
Subjects:working class
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Abstract:The complexities of urban class analysis in Africa can only be resolved on the basis of intensive studies of the various strata, their social origins, work situation (if any), interactions, aspirations and political orientations. In this context Kenneth King's two monographs (1975 and 1976) on artisans (and their apprentices and casual workers) and educated unemployed in Kenya, principally Nairobi, are reviewed as examples of studies dealing with the non-capitalist and petty capitalist informal sector ('sub-proletariat', 'floating pro-letariat'). Reflections in the light of King's work on some important themes relating to dynamics of urban class formation in tropical Africa, namely rural-urban migration (in particular the 'Todaro-model') artisans and the evolution of petty production, and the unemployed and the devaluation of educational credentials. Notes.
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